Gingerbread Cookies

Name: Gingerbread Cookies
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 60
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking soda; 237 milliliters packed brown sugar; 177 milliliters butter, softened; 1 egg; 946 milliliters all-purpose flour; 60 servings Red and green paste food coloring; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoons ground cloves; 2 teaspoons ground ginger; 177 milliliters molasses; 0 teaspoons salt

Gingerbread Cookies might be a good recipe to expand your dessert repertoire. This recipe makes 60 servings with 78 calories, 1g of protein, and 2g of fat each. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Christmas will be even more special with this recipe. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 40 minutes. If you have ground ginger, brown sugar, molasses, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

In a large bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and molasses.

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Brown Sugar

Molasses

Butter

Cream

Egg

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Bowl

Combine the flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight or until easy to handle.

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Baking Soda

Cinnamon

Clove

Ginger

All Purpose Flour

Salt

On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/8-in. thickness.

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Dough

Roll

Cut with a floured 3-1/2-in. gingerbread man cookie cutter.

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Cookie Cutter

Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Reroll scraps; cut out sixty 1-1/4-in. triangles.

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Baking Sheet

Place triangles on heads for hats. Using remaining scraps, roll sixty 1/4-in. balls; place on top of hats for pom-poms. Gently press to seal edges.

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Roll

Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes or until edges are firm.

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Oven

Remove to wire racks to cool.

Tint some of the frosting red and some green. Use red and green frosting for hats and buttons.

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Frosting

Cut a small hole in the corner of pastry bag or heavy-duty resealable plastic bag; insert #3 round pastry tip. Fill bag with white frosting. Pipe a band of icing on cuffs at hands and feet. Use #16 star pastry tip to pipe a band of frosting at edge of hat and on pom-pom.

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Frosting

Icing