SOFT & CHEWY GINGERBREAD MEN COOKIES Recipes

Soft & Chewy Gingerbread Men Cookies are part of my personal Christmas cookie trifecta.  The other two cookies are these perfect peanut butter blossoms and classic sugar cookies decorated with frosting and sprinkles or M&Ms.  Although I have been making a chocolate peppermint cookie for a couple of years now that keeps inching it’s way up on my list of “must bakes” each Christmas season.

Ingredients
Gingerbread Cookies

• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup molasses
• 1 egg
• 5 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons ground ginger
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice

Royal Icing

• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon light corn syrup
• 2-3 tablespoons room temperature water

Pinch of salt

• Gel or liquid Food coloring (optional)

Instructions

1. In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream together the butter and brown sugar until smooth. Add the molasses (it really does help to spray your measuring cup with cooking spray before measuring the molasses – it will pour out more easily afterwards) and egg and mix again to combine, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
2. Add the flour, salt, baking soda, and spices, then mix until everything is completely combined. Scrape the gingerbread cookie dough out of the bowl onto a large piece of plastic wrap, then wrap it up into a disc and put it in the refrigerator to chill for 3 hours or even overnight.
3. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. On a floured surface, roll the dough out to 1/4″ thickness. I always find I need to be generous with the flour so the cookies don’t stick to the counter or the rolling pin, but you don’t need to worry about having cookies that look dusted by flour because it will be absorbed into the dough as the cookies get rolled out.
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