Gingerbread Cookies

Name: Gingerbread Cookies
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 36
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp baking powder; 79 milliliters firmly packed brown sugar; 1 large egg; 651 milliliters About all-purpose flour; 1 Tbsp ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoons ground cloves; 1 Tbsp ground ginger; 177 milliliters molasses; 118 milliliters salad oil; 1 teaspoons salt

Gingerbread Cookies

Gingerbread Cookies might be a good recipe to expand your dessert collection. This recipe makes 36 servings with 66 calories, 1g of protein, and 0g of fat each. This recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for Christmas. If you have ground cinnamon, salad oil, egg, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is a good option if you're following a dairy free and vegetarian diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

In a large bowl, with a mixer on medium speed, beat molasses, oil, brown sugar, and egg until well blended.

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Brown Sugar

Molasses

Egg

Cooking Oil

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Blender

Bowl

In a medium bowl, mix 2 3/4 cups flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Stir into molasses mixture, then beat until well blended. Divide dough in half, gather each half into a ball, then flatten into a disk. Wrap each disk in plastic wrap and freeze until firm, about 1 hour.

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Baking Powder

Cinnamon

Molasses

Clove

Ginger

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Salt

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Bowl

Unwrap dough. On a lightly floured surface, with a floured rolling pin, roll one disk at a time to about 1/4 inch thick. With floured 3- to 4-inch cutters, cut out cookies.

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Cut Out Cookies

Dough

Roll

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Rolling Pin

Place about 1 inch apart on buttered 12- by 15-inch baking sheets. Gather excess dough into a ball, reroll, and cut out remaining cookies.

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Dough

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Baking Sheet

Bake cookies in a 350 regular or convection oven until edges begin to brown slightly, 8 to 10 minutes; if baking two sheets at once in one oven, switch their positions halfway through baking.

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Oven

Let cookies cool on sheets for 5 minutes, then transfer to racks to cool completely. Pipe Powdered Sugar Icing over cookies as desired.

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Powdered Sugar

Icing

Powdered Sugar Icing: In a bowl, stir 2 cups powdered sugar, 1 1/2 tablespoons water, and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla until smooth. Tint to desired color by stirring in food coloring, a drop or two at a time. If icing is too thick to work with, stir in more water, a few drops at a time; if too thin, stir in more powdered sugar. Makes 2/3 cup.

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Powdered Sugar

Food Color