Fragrant gingerbread men.
Summary
| Prep Time | 20 mins |
| Cook Time | 12 mins |
| Total Time | 2 hrs 32 mins |
| Course | Dessert |
| Cuisine | American |
Ingredients
Ingredients- Flour – 3.5 cups + for rolling out the dough
- Brown sugar – 0.5 cups
- Butter – 100 g
- Treacle – 0.5 cups
- Coldwater – 0.3333 cup
- Soda – 2 teaspoon
- Ground ginger – 2 teaspoon
- Ground allspice – 0.5 teaspoon
- Ground cinnamon – 0.5 teaspoon
- Ground cloves – 0.25 teaspoon
- Salt – 0.25 teaspoon
* - For decoration:
Powdered sugar – 2 cups
Milk or water – 2 tbsp
Vanilla sugar – 0.5 teaspoon
Food colorant – optional
Candy
Instructions
- Leave the oil at room temperature until softened. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Cover the baking sheet with parchment.
- In a bowl, combine brown sugar, butter, molasses, and water. Beat with a mixer.
- Add the rest of the ingredients gradually. Knead the dough, cover, refrigerate for 2 hours.
- Divide the dough into two parts. Roll out each piece of dough on a floured surface to a thickness of 0.6 cm.
- Cut the men out with a mold (you can use other cookie cutters as well). Transfer the cookies to a baking sheet, leaving a distance of 5 cm between them.
- Put the rest of the dough together, knead again, roll out, and cut the cookies.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes. Remove the cookies, cool on a wire rack. Before placing the next batch of cookies on a baking sheet, refrigerate the baking sheet for 10 minutes.
- In a bowl, mix the icing sugar with water or milk, add vanilla. Stir until smooth. Add food coloring if desired.
- Decorate the cookies with icing and candies.
The Gingerbread Man Cookie is ready. Enjoy your meal!
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