Gingerbread Cookies
Gingerbread men are a holiday tradition in the Trudel family and this recipe comes from a friend of the family! The cookies are usually baked and decorated by my sister, Dominique, and I usually just swoop in at the end and eat a couple of them! As I’m not going to be home for Christmas this year, I thought I would continue the tradition and make these cookies for Jeff and I! They were all gone in a few days!!
The trick to form cute cookies is to let the dough chill in the fridge for a while before rolling it and cutting them with a cookie cutter. You will notice these are actually bear shaped because that’s the only cookie cutter we own. Jeff renamed them gingerbear cookies!
- 24 cookies
- 45 minutes
- 10 minutes
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1/2 cup molasses
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp milk
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 1 tbsp + 1 tsp warm water
Directions
- In a large mixing bowl, mix together shortening, brown sugar, egg yolk and molasses.
- In another bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, ground clove, ground ginger, cinnamon and salt.
- Pour the dry ingredient in the wet ingredient. If the mixture is too dry, add 1 tbsp of milk (or more if needed). If on the other hand, the mixture is too sticky, add some flour.
- Rest in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven the 350 F.
- Dust your rolling surface and rolling pin with flour and roll out the dough to about 1/4 in thick.
- Cut the dough using your cookie cutter.
- Repeat step 6 and 7 until you have no dough left.
- Cook for 8-10 minutes and immediately transfer to a wire rack for cooling (if you don’t do this they will keep cooking when taken out of the oven and will overcooked/rock hard).
- Mix together the icing sugar and warm water. If your icing is too sticky, add a little bit more water.
- Put a piping bag in a glass and using a spoon, transfer the icing in the piping bag.
- Once the cookies have completely cooled, decorate them!
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