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Gingerbread People Holiday Cookie Projects: White Snowflakes, Dreidel Trios and Ornaments

Gingerbread People Holiday Cookie Projects: White Snowflakes, Dreidel Trios and Ornaments
Gingerbread People Holiday Cookie Projects: White Snowflakes, Dreidel Trios and Ornaments might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe makes 24 servings with 360 calories, 3g of protein, and 9g of fat each. This recipe covers 5% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up baking soda, brown sugar, egg white, and a few other things to make it today. It will be a hit at your Christmas event. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 55 minutes.

Instructions

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Special equipment: Pastry bag fitted with small, round tip; cookie cutters in the shape of gingerbread men and women, dreidels, Christmas tree ornaments, and snowflakes; wire, string or yarn for stringing
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Make the Gingerbread: In a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream the butter until smooth.
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Add the sugar and mix.
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Add the eggs and mix.
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Add the molasses and vanilla and mix.
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Sift the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves together. Working in batches and mixing after each addition until just combined, add the dry ingredients to the butter-sugar mixture. Shape the dough into a thick disk, wrap in waxed paper, and refrigerate 1 to 2 hours.
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
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Grease 1 or 2 cookie sheets. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out 1/4-inch thick and cut out with desired cookie cutters.
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To make the Royal Icing: In a mixer, blend the confectioners' sugar, milk, and egg white together.
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Add more sugar to get a pipe-able consistency.
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To make Gingerbread Men and Women: Use gingerbread man and woman cookie cutters and cut out the cookies, re-rolling the scraps as needed. Decorate them with raisins and white chocolate chips for eyes, nose, mouth, and buttons down the front.
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Bake until firm, 8 to 10 minutes, and let cool on the pan.
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Meanwhile, add some festive colors to your icing with food coloring and lay out colored sugars in small glass bowls with spoons. Using a pastry bag fitted with the smallest plain tip, pipe a few colorful borders or white borders and coat with sanding sugar. When set, add more lines of icing in white.
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To make snowflakes: Use a snowflake-shaped cookie cutter to cut out the cookies, re-rolling the scraps as needed. If you plan to hang the cookies, use a toothpick to make holes in the cookies about 1/8-inch wide, keeping in mind that the holes will shrink as the cookies bake and puff up a bit.
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Bake until firm, 8 to 10 minutes, and let cool on the pan. Using only white icing and a pastry bag fitted with the smallest plain tip, pipe thin lines from the center of the cookie out to the points, like spokes of a wheel. Connect the spokes with thin lines between them, making a spiderweb effect to give it the look of a snowflake.
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Let the icing harden before threading the cookies onto wire, string, or yarn for hanging.
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To make ornaments: Use any holiday-themed cookie cutter to cut out the cookies, re-rolling the scraps as needed. If you plan to hang the cookies, use a toothpick to make holes in the cookies about 1/8-inch wide, keeping in mind that the holes will shrink as the cookies bake and puff up a bit.
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Bake until firm, 8 to 10 minutes, and let cool on the pan. Meanwhile, color some of your icing in festive colors with food coloring, or use colored sugars. Using a pastry bag fitted with the smallest plain tip, pipe a few colorful borders and decorations on the cookies. When set, add more lines of icing in white.
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Let the icing harden before threading the cookies onto wire, string, or yarn for hanging.
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To make dreidel trios: Use a dreidel cookie cutter and cut out 3 cookies.
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Lay 1 on a greased sheet pan. Fanning out at an angle, with the handles overlapping at the top, lay 2 more dreidels next to the first one (it will look like a paper-doll effect). The handle is now 3 layers thick; press on it gently to thin it slightly and make it larger. Repeat with the remaining dough, re-rolling the scraps as needed.
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If you plan to hang the cookies, use a toothpick to make a hole in the cookies about 1/8-inch wide, keeping in mind that the hole will shrink as the cookies bake and puff up a bit.
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Bake until firm, 8 to 10 minutes, and let cool on the pan. Color some of your icing blue with food coloring, or use blue colored sugar and white icing together. Using a pastry bag fitted with a small plain tip, pipe Hebrew letters or stars of David on the cookies' faces.
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Let the icing harden before threading the cookies onto wire, string, or yarn for hanging.
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DifficultyExpert
Ready In55 m.
Servings24
Health Score1
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