Many people only think about gingerbread cookies at Christmas time. But these are one of our households favorite cookies and the kinds love to decorate them. I thought I would share this for a change of pace, plus the gingerbread can be cut into all sorts of shapes with your cookie cutters, although all we used were large drinking glasses.
All you will need is the ingredients for the cookie recipe and then all sorts of candies to decorate with.
Cookie Materials and Instructions:
- 1-1/2 cups dark molasses
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 2/3 cup cold water
- 1/3 cup shortening
- 7 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground allspice
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 (16 ounce) package frosting of your choice
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease one cookie sheet.
- Mix together the molasses, brown sugar, water and shortening.
- Sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, allspice, ginger, cloves and cinnamon. Add to sugar mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours.
- Continue to the decorating instructions.
Cookie Decorating Instructions:
- Make cookie dough and use large round cookie cutters or a drinking cup to create circles. Bake as directed and allow to cool off completely.
- Place different types of decorations into small bowls. We used Dots candy, spiced gumdrops, nonpareils, Skittles candies, and white tube decorator frosting.
- Use decorator frosting to draw on rick rack.
- To “glue” on eyes, cheeks and nose, dot some frosting onto the cookie, then gently press the decoration on top of it.
- Cut gumdrops in half, use the top half for eyes and bottom half for cheeks.
- To make colorful hair, cover top of cookie with decorator icing them dip into nonpareils or sprinkles.
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