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Soft Gingerbread Cookies

Kankana Saxena
Soft Gingerbread cookies are Christmas traditon, one I started 3 years back with my little guy. Avyan was the over the mood excited to cut out the cookie dough and then even frost the cookies along with his Dad. These Christmas cookies is a must every year. 

Ingredients
 

  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon ginger powder
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon powder
  • ¾ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¾ cup dark brown sugar
  • 10 tablespoons softened unsalted butter
  • 1 egg yolk
  • ½ cup molasses
  • 2 tablespoons milk

Instructions
 

  • In a mixing bowl, whisk all the dry ingredients (flour, ginger powder, cinnamon powder, salt, baking powder and baking soda).
  • Mix the butter with sugar until it smooth. Pour the molasses, milk and egg yolk. Give it a whisk once again.
  • Add the dry ingredients little by little and combine everything to form dough.
  • Wrap the dough with a clear wrap and let it refrigerate for 1 hour.
  • Preheat the oven to 350 F
  • Place the cookie dough in-between two-parchment paper sheets and roll it out to ¼ inch thickness. Use cookie cutter to cut into different shapes.
  • Layer the shapes on a cookie sheet and bake for 10 minutes. After 8 minutes, take out the cookie sheet and let it rest for 2 minutes. Then, place the hot cookies on a wire rack to cool down completely.

Notes

Notes:

The cookie dough can be prepared much in advance and refrigerated.
The icing recipe is a mix of powdered sugar with milk and food color. I didn’t give any exact measurements as I kept making the icing randomly as required. The measurement is 1 cup powdered sugar to 2 tablespoons milk and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.

Nutrition

Serving: 1Servings