Comfortable & Chewy Gingerbread Cookies

This traditional gingerbread cookie recipe is comfortable and scrumptious. Whereas I like crisp gingerbread for a gingerbread home, my desire for cookies is comfortable and chewy.

This recipe delivers good dough for cutout shapes (just like sugar cookies) with all of the cinnamon and spice taste you’re keen on from gingerbread.

Gingerbread cookies are my husband’s favourite cookie, and I make this recipe a number of instances every vacation season. I hope you get pleasure from it as a lot as we do!

Associated recipes: Snowball Cookies, Pinwheel Cookies, Peanut Butter Blossoms.

Gingerbread Cookie Elements:

• 1 cup (2 sticks) salted butter, room temperature
• 1 cup granulated white sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons white vinegar
• 1 cup darkish molasses
• 5 cups all goal flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons floor ginger
• 2 teaspoons floor cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
• 1 teaspoon floor cloves

The way to Make Gingerbread Cookies:

1. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt and all spices. Set combination apart.
2. In your stand mixer bowl, mix butter and sugar and beat till combination is totally mixed—about 3 minutes. Scrape down sides if wanted.
3. Slowly add the molasses, egg and vinegar till totally mixed. It’s regular for the combination to seem curdled.
4. Add the flour combination slowly, scraping sides as wanted. Make certain the underside and prime of your bowl are each totally mixed. If the dough is crumbly, it’s not totally combined.
5. Divide the dough into 3-5 flattened balls and canopy in plastic wrap.
6. Chill the dough for no less than half-hour earlier than rolling. Chilling is a necessary step to create cutout shapes with good edges. If you happen to skip this step, your cookies could lose some form whereas baking.
7. Preheat oven to 350 levels.
8. Roll dough utilizing as small quantity of flour as obligatory. I exploit parchment paper to roll if my dough is sticky in any respect. Dough ought to be about half an inch thick for a pleasant, comfortable cookie.
9. Place cutout shapes on a parchment lined baking sheet. Collect and re-roll shapes as wanted. You do not want to sit back your dough once more until it turns into very comfortable.
10. Bake cookies at 350 levels for 10 minutes. Permit cookies to chill on pan for five minutes earlier than transferring.
11. Beautify your cookies as you want. I used this royal icing recipe. We even have a vegan royal icing recipe.

Ideas for Making Gingerbread Cookies:

• If you happen to desire crispy gingerbread, merely roll the dough thinner (1/4 inch) and bake for 12 minutes as a substitute of 10.
• You should utilize gentle or darkish molasses, however don’t use blackstrap or cooking molasses or your cookies might be bitter. I used the model Grandma’s Unique Molasses, which is simple to seek out within the U.S.
• Right here’s a hyperlink to Christmas cookie cutters I used.

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