Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, traditional gingerbread men cookies. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have traditional gingerbread men cookies using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Traditional Gingerbread Men Cookies:
- Prepare 3 cups flour
- Take 2 tsp ground ginger
- Get 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 1 tsp baking soda
- Prepare 1 \4 tsp ground nutmeg
- Take 1 \4 tsp salt
- Get 3 \4 cup melted unsalted butter
- Make ready 3 \4 cup brown sugar
- Get 1 \2 cup molasses
- Make ready 1 egg
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Instructions to make Traditional Gingerbread Men Cookies:
- Mix flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, and salt in a large bowl.
- Beat butter and brown sugar in large bowl. I find an electric mixer makes this part easier. Mix until it is light and fluffy.
- Add molasses and egg. Beat well.
- Gradually beat in flour mixture on low speed (electric mixer) until well mixed.
- Press dough into a thick, flat disc. Wrap in wax paper. Place in refrigerator overnight. I find rolling out the dough before chilling makes it easier on you the next day.
- Next day: Preheat oven to 350.
- Roll dough into 1/4 inch thick on floured wax paper. Cut out gingerbread men with a cookie cutter.
- Place gingerbread men on greased cookie sheet and bake in oven for 8-10minutes. Look for the edges of the cookies to just start to turn brown. Then, you know they are done.
- Let cookies cool for about 5 minutes. Then, decorate as desired with icing, gumdrops, candy, etc.
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