Gingerbread Men Cookies
- Yield:4 dozen cookies
- Time:8 hrs, 15 mins show details
Source: sweetsugarbelle.com/2010/...
Ingredients
- ½ cupcrisco
- ½ cupunsalted butter, softened
- 1 cupgranulated sugar
- 1.2 cupsunsulfurated molasses
- 2eggs
- 1 teaspoonflavoring, vanilla, orange, almod or lemon
- 5 cupsall-purpose flour, 5-5.5 (sometimes even six)
- 1 teaspoonbaking soda
- 1 teaspoonsalt
- 2 teaspoonsginger, ground
- 1 tablespooncinnamon, ground
- 1½ teaspoonscloves, ground
- 2 teaspoonsnutmeg, ground
- ½ teaspoonwhite pepper, ground
Preparation
- 5 mins
Cream together shortening butter and granulated sugar. Add the molasses and eggs and whip until light and fluffy.
- 10 mins
Sift all of your dry ingredients into a large bowl then use a measuring cup to add the dry ingredients about a cup at a time.
- 1 hr
Separate the dough into three equal pieces then wrap in plastic wrap and chill for an hour or two.
- 1 hr
Roll out on floured parchment paper to about 1/4 an inch thick and cut into desired shapes.
- 5 hrs
Place the cut out cookies into the freezer until frozen solid, several hours.
- 1 hr
Bake at 325° for 10-15. Time will vary greatly depending on size. Let cool, then decorate with vanilla royal icing.
Notes
Cookies can be decorated with royal icing or glaze.
Ovens vary and gingerbread has to be watched. This year, my baby cookies took about 8 minutes and medium-ish ones ten. I really watch them. It’s kind of hard to tell when gingerbread is done because you cannot see browning. If you wait until you do, you have gone too far and will have hockey pucks rather than cookies. So, watch those baking times, stay near the oven until you figure out what it’s going to do.
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