Gingerbread People

  ✂︎

Favorite

Comment

List

       

Share

• Step 1

  Baking and Finishing

  Preheat an oven to 350ºF. Using the 1 teaspoon butter, grease
  a large baking sheet.

  In a large bowl, beat the 1/2 cup butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the molasses until well blended. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and salt.
  Add half the flour mixture to the butter mixture and beat until well blended. Beat in about 1/4 cup milk, then add the remaining flour mixture, beating it in well. The dough will be very stiff. If it is too stiff and crumbly to roll out, add 1 tablespoon of additional milk.

  On a well-floured work surface, roll the dough out to a thickness
  of about 1/2 inch, then cut into shapes using cookie cutters or by tracing with a knife around cardboard cutouts. Transfer the shapes to the prepared pan.

  Decorate the gingerbread people with currant eyes and red-hots for buttons, pressing them into the dough before baking, or attach them with frosting after baking.

  Bake for 7 to 8 minutes, or until the cookies are puffed and spring back when pushed with your finger. Transfer the cookies from the pan to a wire rack to cool. Decorate with the frosting as desired.

  Makes about sixteen 4-inch cookies.

• Step 2

  Frosting Recipe

  • Confectioners’ sugar
  • Milk
  • Food coloring as needed

  To make the frosting: In a medium bowl, combine the confectioners’ sugar and milk and stir until a stiff but spreadable paste forms. (It may seem overly stiff, but too much milk will make an unworkable frosting. If it is necessary to add more milk, do so only 1/2 teaspoon at a time.) Divide the frosting among separate bowls and mix in food coloring as desired.

Comments

Leave your comment