🍲 Crispy Gingerbread Cookies

Biscuits & Cookies · 9 ingredients · 9 steps

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This recipe makes crispy gingerbread cookies that are used for gingerbread people. To keep the cookies crisp, store them in an air-tight container. They can be decorated with royal icing.

Crispy Gingerbread Cookies
Crispy Gingerbread Cookies — photograph by Alcinoe at English Wikibooks, licensed Public domain, from Wikimedia.
Prep: 15 minutes Baking: 15 minutesserves 2
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Ingredients

  • ⅔ cup (~160 g) packed light brown sugar
  • ⅔ cup (~160 g) molasses
  • 1 teaspoon ginger
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 ½ teaspoon (½ tablespoon) baking soda
  • ⅔ cup (~160 g) butter
  • 1 egg
  • 4 cups (1 quart/ 500g) flour

Method

  1. Pour sugar, molasses, spices, and salt into large saucepan.
  2. Bring to boil and remove from heat.
  3. Add the baking soda and butter and stir until butter melts.
  4. Quickly stir in egg, and then add flour. Mix well.
  5. Chill for several hours until firm enough to roll.
  6. Preheat oven to 325 °F (170 °C).
  7. Roll out until thin on lightly-floured surface.
  8. Cut with cookie cutters and place on cookie sheet sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.
  9. Bake for about 15 minutes at 325 °F (170 °C) and cool on racks.
Where this came from. Adapted from Crispy Gingerbread Cookies in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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