Easy Gingerbread Cookies Recipe

Combine the flour ginger baking soda cinnamon cloves and salt.

Easy gingerbread cookies recipe. Bake until slightly puffed and set 9 to 10 minutes depending on the size of your cookie cutters. Cut with floured 2 1 2 in. Place a circle of gingerbread fabric between lid and ring and tie a gingerbread man cookie cutter onto jar with ribbon.

Heat oven to 375 f. Refrigerate 1 to 2 hours or until thoroughly chilled. On ungreased cookie sheet place cutouts 2 inches apart.

In a separate bowl combine flour baking soda salt cinnamon and ginger stirring to combine. Repeat for remaining dough rerolling scraps as necessary. You don t need any electric cooking tools to make these cookies just a bowl and clean hands.

Here s a look at the ingredients you ll need. On floured surface roll 1 dough disk 1 4 inch thick. On a lightly floured surface working with half of the dough this time roll 1 8 inch thick.

On a lightly floured surface roll dough to 1 8 in. First mix together butter and sugar until light and fluffy approximately 2 3 minutes with an electric mixer. Next add egg and molasses and mix well.

Cut out gingerbread men with a 3 wide cutter and transfer to baking sheets. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour. In a large bowl with mixer at slow speed beat flour sugar butter molasses egg cinnamon baking powder ginger cloves nutmeg baking soda and salt until well mixed.