Ginger Bread Cookies. Serve with lemon curd or drizzle with lemon flavored almond bark for a special treat. Sift the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, cloves, salt and pepper through a wire sieve into. In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, and cloves until well blended. Ginger Bread Cookies

You can have Ginger Bread Cookies using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Ginger Bread Cookies
  1. Prepare 1 1/4 cups of brown sugar.
  2. You need 1 cup of white granulated sugar.
  3. It’s 4 ounces of shortning.
  4. You need 1 ounce of molasses.
  5. It’s 3 of each eggs.
  6. You need 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda.
  7. You need 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
  8. You need 1/2 tablespoon of ground ginger.
  9. You need 3 1/4 cups of flour.

Gingerbread cookie recipes all start the same and mine comes from my mom. To her recipe, I add a little more molasses and increase the amount of spice flavors (cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and allspice). Gingerbread cookies of every shape and size top our list for must-make cookies each year. Their subtly spicy aroma and chewy texture are perfect as-is or topped with frosting and candies.

Ginger Bread Cookies instructions

  1. Cream first three ingredients.

  2. Add molasses and eggs mix till combined.

  3. Sift soda salt and ginger together add to mix and blend.

  4. Add flour mix till incorporated.

  5. Roll out to a 1/4 inch thickness on a lightly floured piece of wax paper or parchment paper. I like to cut and transfer to a sheet pan leaving 1 inch between for spreading..

  6. Recombine and cut out more cookies from left over dough..

  7. Cut out gingerbread shapes of choice bake at 350 degrees F until golden brown. 8-12 minutes depending on your oven..

  8. Allow to cool and decorate as you like.

  9. The size if the cutter will determine quantity..

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