Gingerbread Birdhouse Ornaments

Name: Gingerbread Birdhouse Ornaments
Prep time: 3 h 10 min
Cook time: 3 h 10 min
Total time: 3 h 10 min
Yield: 60
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking soda; 60 servings Betty Crocker® Holiday Décor holly berry sprinkles; 237 milliliters packed brown sugar; 1 liters Gold Medal® all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon ground allspice; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoon ground cloves; 2 teaspoons ground ginger; 4 Tbsps half-and-half; 60 servings Betty Crocker® green decorating icing; 355 milliliters full-flavor molasses; 946 milliliters powdered sugar; 8 pretzel sticks, cut into 1-inch lengths; 1 teaspoon salt; 79 milliliters shortening; 60 servings Drinking straw; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 158 milliliters water; 60 servings Gold string

Gingerbread Birdhouse Ornaments requires about 3 hours and 10 minutes from start to finish. This recipe makes 60 servings with 246 calories, 1g of protein, and 6g of fat each. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Only It will be a hit at your Christmas event. Head to the store and pick up baking soda, half-and-half, water, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

In large bowl, mix brown sugar, shortening, molasses and cold water until well blended. Stir in flour, baking soda, ginger, salt, allspice, cloves and cinnamon. Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours.

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Baking Soda

Brown Sugar

Shortening

Allspice

Cinnamon

Molasses

Clove

Ginger

All Purpose Flour

Water

Salt

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Heat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease cookie sheet. On lightly floured surface, roll dough 1/2 inch thick. Using knife or 2 1/2-inch cookie cutters, cut dough into squares or circles for bases of birdhouses, and into hearts for roofs.

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Roll

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Place heart shape upside down on top of square or circle, just overlapping. Using end of drinking straw, make hole in center of birdhouse base for door and at top of roof for hanging.

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Base

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Drinking Straws

Place about 1 1/2 inches apart on cookie sheet.

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Baking Sheet

Bake about 15 minutes or until no indentation remains when touched. While warm, insert pretzel stick just below door hole for perch.

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Pretzel Sticks

Perch

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Oven

Remove from cookie sheet. Cool completely.

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Baking Sheet

In medium bowl, mix 4 cups powdered sugar, the vanilla and enough half-and-half for desired spreading consistency. Tint with food color as desired. Frost tops of cookies (roofs) with frosting; sprinkle with powdered sugar. Decorate with decorating icing and sprinkles. Thread pieces of gold string through holes in tops of birdhouses; tie in knots to make hangers.

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Powdered Sugar