Gingerbread Cookie Recipe

Kids Love To Decorate Them

gingerbread cookie

It's always good to know a tasty Gingerbread Cookie Recipe for the holidays. This one is delicious and easy to prepare.

After they have cooled you can decorate them any way you want. Our kids love to get involved with making these cookies. They have so much fun drawing the faces and buttons on the gingerbread men. We buy tubes of different colored icing and sprinkles to decorate them with.

Some other decorating ideas include using some mini M&Ms for the buttons which you can glue on with icing, some red hot candies would also make good buttons or eyes. So let's make it a gingerbread Christmas this year and bake some great tasting cookies.

Gingerbread Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup white sugar
3/4 cup shortening
1 cup molasses
1/2 cup hot water
2 eggs
6 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsps ground ginger
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon

Preparation:

In a large bowl, mix together the shortening, molasses and sugar
Mix in the eggs.
Combine the ginger, cinnamon, flour, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl
Stir flour mixture into the batter, this will make a soft dough. Add more flour if needed.
Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least one hour.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Roll out the dough to 1/4 inch thickness on a floured surface.
Cut into Gingerbread Man shapes using a cookie cutter
Place cookies onto ungreased baking sheets.
Bake for 10 minutes in oven, or until cookies should be dry in the center.

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