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Gingerbread Cookies
Mix brown sugar, softened butter, molasses, and cold water.
Stir in remaining ingredients: ginger, allspice, cinnamon, cloves, salt, baking soda, and flour.
Refrigerate the dough 1 hour covered. You can skip this part, but it helps make the dough easier to shape.
Preheat oven to 350 F while you roll out gingerbread men on a lightly floured surface. The dough will be stiff, that's normal.
Put cut outs on lightly greased cookie sheet 2" apart.
Bake 10-12 minutes. DON'T OVERBAKE or they wont be soft. Let them cool 1-2 minutes on cookie sheet and then move them to a cooling rack.
Once cookies are cool enough to handle, decorate with frosting.
These are seriously the best Christmas cookies you'll eat. They are quick & easy to make, not overly sweet, they are soft, they smell like Christmas, and they taste FANTASTIC!
These are my families favorite Christmas cookie!
Yield: 3-4 dozen
BEST Gingerbread Cookies
prep time: 10 MINScook time: 25 MINStotal time: 35 mins
These are seriously the best Christmas cookies you'll eat. They are quick & easy to make, not overly sweet, they are soft, they smell like Christmas, and they taste FANTASTIC!
INGREDIENTS:
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons butter, softened
- 3/4 cup molasses
- 1/3 cup cold water
- 1 teaspoon ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon allspice
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3 1/2 cups flour
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Mix together brown sugar, butter, molasses, and cold water. Add the remaining ingredients.
- Cover dough and put in refrigerate for about an hour. This is option, but will make it easier to handle. If you refrigerate it too long it gets stiff - don't throw it out just let it warm up and you roll it is and it will still taste just as delicious!
- Pre-heat oven to 350 F. Roll out dough on lightly floured surface. Cut out with cookie cutters and place on greased cookie sheet at least 2" apart.
- Bake cookies for 10 minutes (DON"T overbake!) Allow to cool 1-2 minutes on the cookie sheet, then move to cooling rack.
- Decorate cooled cookies with your favorite icing to look like gingerbread men.
notes
HINT: If you are using traditional red-hots for eyes, make sure you put them in the gingerbread men before baking. Personally, this is one of my favorite flavor combinations!
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