Mushy Gingerbread Cookies – A Lovely Mess

This traditional gingerbread cookie recipe is tender and scrumptious. Whereas I like crisp gingerbread for a gingerbread home, my choice for cookies is tender and chewy.

This recipe delivers excellent dough for cutout shapes (much like sugar cookies) with all of the cinnamon and spice taste you’re keen on from gingerbread.

Gingerbread cookies are my husband’s favourite cookie, and I make this recipe a number of instances every vacation season. I hope you take pleasure in it as a lot as we do!

Associated recipes: Snowball Cookies, Pinwheel Cookies, Peanut Butter Blossoms.

Gingerbread Cookie Elements:

• 1 cup (2 sticks) salted butter, room temperature
• 1 cup granulated white sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons white vinegar
• 1 cup darkish molasses
• 5 cups all function flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons floor ginger
• 2 teaspoons floor cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
• 1 teaspoon floor cloves

Methods to Make Gingerbread Cookies:

1. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt and all spices. Set combination apart.
2. In your stand mixer bowl, mix butter and sugar and beat till combination is totally mixed—about 3 minutes. Scrape down sides if wanted.
3. Slowly add the molasses, egg and vinegar till totally mixed. It’s regular for the combination to look curdled.
4. Add the flour combination slowly, scraping sides as wanted. Ensure the underside and prime of your bowl are each totally mixed. If the dough is crumbly, it isn’t totally combined.
5. Divide the dough into 3-5 flattened balls and canopy in plastic wrap.
6. Chill the dough for a minimum of half-hour earlier than rolling. Chilling is an important step to create cutout shapes with good edges. In case you skip this step, your cookies might lose some form whereas baking.
7. Preheat oven to 350 levels.
8. Roll dough utilizing as small quantity of flour as crucial. I exploit parchment paper to roll if my dough is sticky in any respect. Dough must be about half an inch thick for a pleasant, tender cookie.
9. Place cutout shapes on a parchment lined baking sheet. Collect and re-roll shapes as wanted. You don’t want to relax your dough once more until it turns into very tender.
10. Bake cookies at 350 levels for 10 minutes. Enable cookies to chill on pan for five minutes earlier than transferring.
11. Adorn your cookies as you want. I used this royal icing recipe. We even have a vegan royal icing recipe.

Ideas for Making Gingerbread Cookies:

• In case you favor crispy gingerbread, merely roll the dough thinner (1/4 inch) and bake for 12 minutes as an alternative of 10.
• You need to use mild or darkish molasses, however don’t use blackstrap or cooking molasses or your cookies will likely be bitter. I used the model Grandma’s Unique Molasses, which is simple to search out within the U.S.
• Right here’s a hyperlink to Christmas cookie cutters I used.

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