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Amount Per Serving
Calories 229
Calories from Fat 45
% Daily Value*
Tips for this Recipe:
- Don’t purpose fully softened butter. The semi-firm butter helps them spread less.
- Don’t be skimpy amongst the spices. The amounts listed turn over them their classic gingerbread season.
- Be sure to chill the dough in the freezer before cut too shaping, it makes the dough easier to go with.
- Another fun idea is to turn the gingerbread men upside down and they become shapes for reindeer. Or only cut into rounds as well as brand reindeer faces. I posted a quick how-to video on Instagram here.
How to Store Gingerbread Men:
Store gingerbread men in an airtight container at room temperature for upwardly to almost half dozen days.
Can I Freeze Gingerbread Cookies?
Yes these will freeze good in one case the icing is fully ready. Store inward an airtight container in the freezer upwards to ii months.
More Christmas Cookie Favorites to Try!
- White Chocolate Dipped Ginger Cookies
- Raspberry Almond Thumbprints
- Butter Cookies
- Stained Glass Cookies
- Peanut Butter Blossoms
- Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Gingerbread Cookies
This is my favorite Gingerbread Cookie recipe! It makes perfectly soft too chewy cookies in addition to they accept the but the right total of spices together with rich molasses flavour. The dough is slowly to work alongside and they are so fun to decorate. These volition apace go a novel favorite holiday cookie!
Servings: 24 Cookies
Ingredients
Cookies
- three cups (425g) all-role flour
- one Tbsp earth ginger
- ii tsp earth cinnamon
- 1/four tsp ground cloves
- i/four tsp ground nutmeg
- three/four tsp baking powder
- i/2 tsp baking soda
- ane/two tsp table salt
- 3/four loving cup (165g) packed night dark-brown saccharide
- x Tbsp (142g) unsalted butter, softened virtually halfway*
- one large egg yolk
- i i/2 tsp vanilla extract
- i/2 cup (172g) molasses (non blackstrap)
- one - two Tbsp milk
Icing
- iii (420g) cups powdered sugar
- ane 1/ii Tbsp (15g) meringue pulverization
- iv - half-dozen Tbsp water
- i/four tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Whisk dry out ingredients: In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, baking pulverisation, baking soda and common salt set up aside.
- Cream butter too saccharide: In the bowl of an electrical stand mixer fitted alongside the paddle attachment cream together saccharide in addition to butter until good combined, occasionally stopping and scraping downwardly bowl.
- Mix inwards wet ingredients: Mix egg yolk as well as vanilla. Mix inwards molasses together with i Tbsp milk.
- Mix dry mixture with moisture mixture: With mixer set on depression speed tardily add together inward dry ingredients together with mix until combined, spell adding additional milk equally needed but to take dough together.
- Roll dough: Divide dough into ii equal portions and so curlicue each portion out evenly to i/4-inch thickness (into more of a oblong or rectangular form and then it volition correspond on a cookie sail) between ii sheets of parchment paper.
- Chill briefly: chill on a cookie canvas inwards freezer 10 - xx minutes, or until business firm so cutting into shapes using cookie cutters.
- Transfer to baking sheets in addition to bake: Remove from newspaper using a thin metallic spatula or pastry scraper if needed and so transfer to parchment paper lined cookie sheet, spacing cookies near one-inch apart, in addition to bake inward preheated oven eight minutes or until slightly fix*.
- Let cookies cool: Remove from oven and cool on baking sheet two minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Repeat procedure amongst remaining dough.
- Make the icing: Add powdered carbohydrate too meringue powder to the bowl of an electric stand up mixer. Fit mixer amongst paddle attachment, add inward iv Tbsp water too the vanilla them mix on low speed until combined.
- Thin equally needed together with whip: Add more than water to sparse as needed in addition to increase speed and whip mixture until it is glossy and thickens upwards. Tint alongside nutrient color if desired. Transfer to piping bags fitted with tiny circular tips.
- Decorate equally desired: decorate cookies amongst icing together with add together sprinkles if desired. Let icing prepare at room temperature too shop in an airtight container.
Notes
- *Butter should even so hold it'sec shape pretty well and be cool. The cool butter volition brand dough easier to go amongst and brand cookies spread less.
- **Cookies should get out a slight indentation when touched. For soft cookies live careful non to over-bake, if y'all desire them more crisp you lot tin can bake longer.
- Cookies are fifty-fifty amend together with softer the moment day.
- See notes inwards post above for instructions on how to decorate reindeer cookies.
Nutrition Facts
Gingerbread Cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 229
Calories from Fat 45
% Daily Value*
Fat 5g8%
Saturated Fat 3gxix%
Cholesterol 20mg7%
Sodium 89mgiv%
Potassium 158mgv%
Carbohydrates 43g14%
Sugar 29g32%
Protein 2gfour%
Vitamin A 160IUiii%
Calcium 35mg4%
Iron one.3mgvii%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Nutrition values are estimates only. See full disclaimer hither.