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| Gingerbread Boy Cookies Recipe |
Category: Desserts / Cookies
Rating:
N/A
Servings: 8
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Ingredients
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup white or brown sugar
1/2 cup dark molasses
3 1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
2 teaspoon ginger
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup water; up to 1/3
----FOR DECORATION----
1 raisins
1 candied fruit or red hots
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 food coloring
1 gingerbread boy cookie cutter
Cooking Directions:
Makes 8 cookies. 350 degree oven.
Cream butter, sugar, and molasses together. Add dry ingredients. Add water as necessary. Its easiest to mix with your hands.
Roll out the dough to 1/4" thickness. Cut out gingerbread boys with cookie cutter, Roll scraps back into dough to make more cutouts. Make faces and buttons with the raisins. candied fruit, or red hots.
Bake on greased cookie sheet for 8-10 minutes. Let cool.
To further decorate your gingerbread boys, mix the powdered sugar with a few drops of water and food coloring. Dip a toothpick or small paintbrush into the sugar mixture and draw on hair and clothes.
Recipe by: The Gingerbread Boy, written and illus. by Richard Egielsk
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