Gingerbread
Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins
Preparation Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup dark brown sugar, packed
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 3 3/4 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons ginger
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar, sifted
- 1 -2 tablespoon milk
- food coloring (optional)
Recipe
- 1 cream butter and sugar until combined in an electric mixer.
- 2 add in eggs and molasses and mix until combined.
- 3 sift together dry ingredients, and add to butter mixture using dough hook attachment, or by hand.
- 4 refrigerate dough for 1 hour.
- 5 preheat oven to 350.
- 6 allow dough to sit for 15 minutes, or until pliable. roll out dough in 4 portions until about 1/8 inch thick, and cut into desired shapes, rerolling scraps when appropriate.
- 7 using a spatula, transfer shapes to parchment lined baking sheets.
- 8 bake for 10 minutes or until just browned.
- 9 cool on wire rack.
- 10 combine all ingredients for the icing, and decorate cookies as desired.
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