![]() Our girls enjoy pressing sprinkles into the wet powdered sugar frosting "glue" to decorate trees and snowflakes.ĭecorating Tip: To make frosting easier to pipe for little hands, we use an old decorator set similar to this Kuhn Rikon Cookie Decorating Set. Let cool completely and frost and decorate as desired. Bake 10-14 minutes or until the edges of the cookies are golden brown. Use a thin, floured spatula to lift cookies from the workspace and place on cookie sheet.īake, Cool, Decorate and Serve. Dip shaped cookie cutters into flour and cut out the shapes from the dough. Sprinkle flour over your work space, rub flour on your rolling pin and hands to prevent dough from sticking. Roll out gingerbread dough and cut into desired shapes. Preheat oven to 375 degrees fahrenheit. Line a cookie sheet with a strip of parchment paper. Divide the dough in half, wrap each half in plastic wrap and chill for at least 2 to 3 hours. Alternatively, if dough is too soft, add flour by the tablespoon until the dough reaches a good texture for handling.ĭivide the gingerbread dough and chill. If the dough is too stiff or crumbly-add a milk by the teaspoonful until dough is easy to work with. ![]() Make sure that the dough is a kneading consistency. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix thoroughly until the flour mixture is incorporated Add shortening, butter, molasses, the egg and sugar to a large mixing bowl and mix together until all ingredients are combined. Combine dry ingredients, except the sugar, into a medium size mixing bowl. Instructions For Making Gingerbread Cut Out Cookies While these old pictures may not be the best quality-we chose to include them instead of new ones because the memories of that day are priceless! This is a great recipe and the start of a fun, memorable, family tradition! We originally created this post in 2011 & the little girls decorated these cookies for that post! We thought it was time to update that old post with some of our current tips and recommendations. It is also a plus that the kids love to decorate shaped gingerbread cookies! The ginger isn't overpowering, and if not allowed to over bake, the cookies turn out a great deal softer than many rolled and cut, gingerbread cookie recipes we've tried. After some trial and error, I think we have our new favorite gingerbread cookie recipe for cut outs. It's not easy to find a well spiced gingerbread cookie dough that can be turned into cut out cookies without the cookies turning into shaped ginger snaps. Sometimes gingerbread cookies are too spicy and sometimes they are just too crunchy. Do you love gingerbread cookies? Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.
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