Gingerbread Cookies

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

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In a large bowl, with a mixer on medium speed, beat molasses, oil, brown sugar, and egg until well blended.
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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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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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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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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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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: 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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Ready In45 m.
Servings36
Health Score1
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