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Gingerbread Men - Cooking with Tami
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Gingerbread Men

This is the perfect dough for making Gingerbread men to fill your Christmas cookie jar!
Plan Ahead Note: the dough needs to chill for one hour before rolling out.
Print Recipe
Servings: 3 dozen cookies
Course: Christmas
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • ½ cup shortening
  • ½ cup molasses
  • 1 egg
  • 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon ginger
  • 1 teaspoon cloves
  • ½ teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt

Method
 

  1. Mix all ingredients together in an electric mixer until soft dough forms.     
  2. Roll onto plastic wrap, cover and refrigerate for 1 hours.
  3. Preheat oven 350°.
  4. On a floured board, roll out the dough and cut into gingerbread men.
  5. Place on a cookie sheet covered with a silicone mat or parchment paper and decorate as desired.
  6. Bake at 350° for 8 minutes.  Remove from cookie sheet and let cool on a wire rack.