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Gingerbread Men Cookies (Day 12)

A snappy gingerbread cookie filled with ginger powder, cinnamon powder, nutmeg and molasses. These cookies are simple, cute and yummy.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Chill Time 30 minutes
Course Bars, biscuit, cookie, Finger food, High Tea, tea time
Cuisine American
Servings 18 Large cookies

Equipment

  • Mixing bowl
  • Rolling Pin
  • Cling wrap
  • Cookie cutters
  • Knife

Ingredients
  

  • 1 Vanilla spiced cookie dough recipe
  • 1 tbsp Molasses
  • 1 tsp Ginger powder
  • 1 tsp Cinnamon powder
  • 1/2 tsp Nutmeg powder
  • 1/4 tsp Pepper powder optional

Molasses Glaze

  • 1 tbsp Molasses
  • 6 tbsp Icing sugar

Decorating (optional)

  • 1 Royal icing recipe check notes
  • Ribbons/string

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 170 Deg C and line a king tray with baking paper. In a mixing bowl crumble the cookie dough and add all the ingredients. Mix well until combined.
  • Knead on a clean work surface and roll out the dough between two sheets of cling film. I like the cookies less than 1/4th inch of thickness. The thicker the cookie the longer it will take to bake.
  • Using a gingerbread man cookie cutter, cut out the dough and transfer each piece to the baking tray. If you are turning them into decorations, you will need to make a hole on the cookie or cut slits in the cookies to run a ribbon through it once baked.
  • If the gingerbread men are large, they will take 10 to 12 mins to bake, if they are small they will take 5-7 mins to bake. Once thy are done let them cool completely.
  • You can serve them three ways: 1. Run a ribbons/string through the slits/holes you made in the cookies before baking and use them as decorations or serve them as decorations as well. 2. Make a molasses icing but mixing molasses and icing sugar until combine and dunk the cookies in the glaze. 3. Decorate with royal icing and serve.

Notes