Gingerbread Cookies

Gingerbread Cookies

Who doesn't enjoy making gingerbread men or women for their gingerbread houses or just to eat! Well here's a recipe you can follow to make your own gingerbread cookies.

• Preparation time: 30 minutes
• Ready time: 2 hours - includes 1 hour chilling time
• Servings: About 40 cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1-¾ cup sugar
• ¼ cup fresh ginger, grated
• 2 eggs
• ½ cup molasses
• ¾ tsp white vinegar
• 5 cups sifted all purpose flour
• 1-½ tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp ground cinnamon

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325 F.

In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat together butter, sugar, and ginger on medium speed, until pale and fluffy, approximately 5 minutes.

In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, molasses and vinegar. Slowly drizzle the wet ingredients into the butter mixture, scraping the bowl periodically in between.

Add flour, baking soda and cinnamon, and blend on low speed until just combined.

Remove dough from mixer, and shape into a log, and chill, at least 1 hour.

To make cookies, cut 1 inch thick medallions of dough (from the log), and roll between two sheets of paper to ¼ inch thickness.

Dip cutter in flour to prevent it from sticking to the dough, press the cutter into the dough, and stamp out the cookie.

Wiggling the cutter a little while pushing down on the dough will help to separate the cookie cutout from the rest of the dough.

Transfer the cookies to a baking sheet lined with parchment.

Bake for 8 to 10 minutes until the cookies have puffed slightly, and the bottoms are golden brown.

Cool, and decorate with different coloured tubes of royal icing.

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