Today on The Stay At Home Chef
I'm showing you how to make Classic Gingerbread Cookies.
This is always a must make recipe during the holidays.
Nothing says Christmas more than gingerbread cookies!
To start you'll need 6 tablespoons of softened salted butter in the bowl of the mixer,
and you'll need 1/4 cup of brown sugar.
You want to cream this together.
As written, this recipe makes about a dozen cookies but it can easily be doubled or tripled.
Next then you'll add in 1 egg and 1/3 cup of molasses.
When measuring sticky ingredients like molasses,
it always helps if you spray your little measuring cup with a little bit of nonstick cooking spray before you put the sticky stuff in it.
Then you'll need 3/4 teaspoon of ground cinnamon,
3/4 teaspoon of ground ginger,
1/2 teaspoon of ground allspice,
and 1/2 teaspoon of ground cloves.
And that's all of our gingerbread flavoring.
You'll also need 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda and 1/4 teaspoon of salt and mix this all together.
Stop and scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl as necessary to make sure that everything gets mixed in.
Last add in 1 3/4 cup of all-purpose flour and mix it all together.
You should end up with a nice thick dough.
Then we're gonna lay out some plastic wrap.
We'll scrape our dough out onto that plastic wrap and wrap it up tightly into a little ball.
Then just pop this into the fridge for about an hour to harden up.
Once your dough has firmed up you'll want to roll it out on a lightly floured surface until it's about 1/4 inch thick.
Then you use a cookie cutter to cut out your cookies and of course I'm using a little gingerbread man.
And then place your cookies onto either a silicon lined baking sheet or a parchment lined baking sheet.
You can gather up all your scraps and re-roll it out so that it's 1/4-inch thick to get more cookies.
Then we're going to bake these in a 350 degree oven for 10 to 12 minutes
Let them cool on the pan for 2 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Now if you want to decorate them you definitely can with royal icing.
Just make sure that they are completely cooled before you try and decorate,
otherwise your gingerbread man's face will just melt away.
Now royal icing does dry really quickly so I like to use these little bags of royal icing.
They're a lot easier to work with than trying to make it all from scratch, but you can definitely do that as well.
Once you've had fun decorating them, well, they're ready to eat!
Even though it does seem a little cruel to just bite his head off,
but here I go....
Mmm!
The cookies are soft,
they're delicious.
These are definitely a winner!
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