Gingerbread Cookies
What cookies better animate the holidays than Gingerbread cookies?! These are adorable and yummy - the best combo you can find.
- Prep time
- 20 min
- Cook time
- Not listed
- Yield
- 1 serving
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ Tablespoon ground cinnamon
- ½ Tablespoon ground ginger
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 5 Tablespoon unsalted butter, softened
- ¼ cup brown sugar ((light or dark))
- ⅓ cup unsulphured molasses ((unsulphured))
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- 1
Combine dry ingredients. Whisk together flour, spices, baking soda, and salt.
- 2
Cream butter and sugar. In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar until fluffy and the color becomes light. Scrape down the sides as needed.
- 3
Add molasses and egg. Add the molasses to the creamed butter and sugar. Mix thoroughly. Add the egg and mix well.
- 4
Combine dry ingredients with the wet. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix on low speed until just combined, or when no visible flour is left.***Cookie dough will remain a little stickier than usual because this dough is really soft.
- 5
Roll out the dough. In between two sheets of parchment paper, roll the cookie dough evenly to ¼ inch thick. Chill the dough in the fridge for at least 3 hours before cutting.
- 6
Preheat oven to 350°F and line baking pans with parchment
- 7
Flour and cut cookies. Peel parchment off both sides of the cookie dough and flour both sides to prevent sticking. With a rolling pin, gently roll over the floured dough a couple of times to remove air pockets and to smooth out the surface. Cut the cookie dough with desired cookie cutters.
- 8
Transfer and bake. Transfer cut dough to lined baking pans. Bake for 7-9 minutes. Cool completely before removing from baking pan.*** These baking times are for cookies cut with a 3 inch cutter.Soft cookies: 7-8 minutes or until edges are solid to the touch while the center is still slightly soft.Crispy cookies: 9-10 minutes or until both the edges and the center are solid.For cookies of larger or smaller sizes, vary the bake time by a couple of minutes.
- 9
Enjoy! These cookies are awesome with a glass of milk or made into holiday gifts!