Angela at Cottage Magpie is hosting a Virtual Cookie Exchange, so I thought I’d participate. It was good timing since we’d been planning to make Gingerbread Cookies this weekend.
As with all projects I attempt, this one was not without it’s glitches. I have never made them before without my mom so I was a little nervous. But I had my daughter, a self proclaimed future baker, to help me.
They turned out a-ok thanks to her!
Gingerbread cookies
What you’ll need:
- 8 cups sifted flour
- 3 teaspoons ginger
- 1 heaping teaspo0n cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 cups molasses
- 1 cup shortening
- 3 teaspoons baking soda
- 2/3 cup hot water
- 1 egg
What to do:
- Combine flour ginger, cinnamon and salt. Make a well in center
- Stir sugar and molasses
- Add shortening. Pour in hot water combined with soda and mix.
- Add egg. Stir until completely blended. Dough will be soft and sticky.
- Chill thoroughly
- Roll out onto floured pastry cloth or board to 1/4″ thick and cut with cookie cutters.
- Bake at 400 for 10 minutes
At this point you can do lots of things with your cookies. You could sprinkle them with sugar and place a dab of jam on them. Or trim them in frosting. We dip ours in chocolate, then trim them with frosting and make little frosting dabbed belly buttons on the men, women and snowmen.
They’ve been dipped in chocolate and we’ll be frosting them tomorrow, I hope!
Your daughter looks so happy!
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Gingerbread cookies are my favorite!!! I let my mom make them though, she’s super good at it. I stick to the chocolate covered cherries.
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Your daughter is so cute. I love this photo.
I’ve never made gingerbread cookies before. I’ve always been kind of intimidated by the idea of them. My daughter would love doing these, though, so I might have to try them. I especially like the idea of dipping them in chocolate (everything’s always better in chocolate, if you ask me!). Thanks, Emily!
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I was really intimidated by doing them by myself without my expert mom to help but I know it can’t be that hard because I did it and they don’t taste like cardboard. And it was really really fun!
Not to mention they are super dee duper yummy!
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Aw how super fun! You are such a great mom. We made gingerbread cookies a year or two ago and no one would eat them. Guess I need a new recipe!
xo
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I love gingerbread, but I’ve never made, nor do I personally know anyone who has. Yours look really good!
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I never thought of dipping gingerbread cookies in chocolate……great idea.
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