Gingerbread Boys and Girls

Name: Gingerbread Boys and Girls
Prep time: 2 h
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 18
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking soda; 1 stick butter or margarine, softened; 237 milliliters confectioners sugar, sifted; 177 milliliters packed dark brown sugar; 2 larges eggs; 887 milliliters all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting work surface; 18 servings Food coloring, as desired; 1 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 2 teaspoons ground ginger; 1 Tbsp milk; 59 milliliters molasses; 1 teaspoons freshly grated nutmeg; 1 teaspoons salt

Gingerbread Boys and Girls is a vegetarian dessert. One portion of this dish contains roughly 3g of protein, 6g of fat, and a total of 223 calories. This recipe covers 5% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 18. Christmas will be even more special with this recipe. Head to the store and pick up molasses, flour, confectioners' sugar, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 2 hours.

Instructions

Using an electric mixer at low speed, cream the sugar and butter until thoroughly combined.

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Butter

Cream

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Add the eggs and molasses and mix until combined. Sift together the flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.

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Baking Soda

Cinnamon

Molasses

Ginger

Nutmeg

All Purpose Flour

Egg

Salt

Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture and combine with a spoon or spatula.

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Butter

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Spatula

Remove the dough from the bowl and wrap in plastic wrap; place in the refrigerator until firm, about 1 hour.

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Dough

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Bowl

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

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Oven

Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Allow the dough to sit at room temperature for about 15 minutes, until pliable. Take about 1/2 cup of dough at a time and roll onto a floured board until about 1/8-inch thick.

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Dough

Roll

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Baking Paper

Baking Sheet

Cut out with gingerbread boy and girl cookie cutters. You can re-roll the scraps. Using a spatula, transfer the cookies from the board to the prepared cookie sheets.

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Roll

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Cookie Cutter

Baking Sheet

Spatula

Bake for 10 minutes, until just beginning to brown at the edges.

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Oven

Transfer to wire racks to cool.

To make the icing, combine the confectioners' sugar and milk. Divide the mixture into thirds; leave 1/3 white, and color 1/3 green and the final third red. Decorate piping eyes, mouths, buttons, and bow ties.

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Powdered Sugar