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November 29, 2018 By Emily 4 Comments

Easy Gingerbread Cookies

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This recipe for Easy Gingerbread Cookies is perfect for cookie cutouts and gingerbread houses.

Easy Gingerbread Cookies shaped like gingerbread men, women, stars and mini-houses, are all decorated with white frosting and candy. - The Goldilocks Kitchen

Making gingerbread cookies is a terrific way to enjoy the holiday season, with their fun cookie shapes, spicy dough with a kick, and custom decorations that make each one unique. Plus, dunking your easy gingerbread cookies into a cup of hot chocolate while watching “Merry Christmas Charlie Brown” makes a terrific Christmastime tradition.

How to Make Easy Gingerbread Cookies

Start by whisking together all purpose flour, brown sugar, ground cinnamon, ground ginger, ground cloves, salt and baking soda in a mixing bowl or a stand mixer.

Flour and spices are mixed in a mixing bowl for making Easy Gingerbread Cookies - The Goldilocks Kitchen

Next, drop in 12 individual tablespoons of softened, but still cool, butter. This dough is easier to work with when it is cool- it will start to stick to your rolling pin if it gets too warm.

Cubes of butter are added to a flour and spice mixture to make Easy Gingerbread Cookies - The Goldilocks Kitchen

Beat the butter chunks into the dry ingredients until the mixture looks like wet sand and there are no more chunks of butter.

Butter and flour are beaten together to form a sandy looking mixture for Easy Gingerbread Cookies - The Goldilocks Kitchen

Next, slowly beat in some molasses and a little milk to form a stiff dough. This dough is edible if you’d like; there’s no raw egg!

Brown Easy Gingerbread Cookies dough is shown in a mixing bowl - The Goldilocks Kitchen

Divide the dough into three equal parts, and wrap two of them in plastic wrap and pop them in the fridge to stay cool. Place the remaining dough onto a flat baking sheet covered with parchment paper.

How to use cookie cutters

 A disc of Easy Gingerbread Cookies dough sits on parchment paper surrounded with cookie cutters - The Goldilocks Kitchen

Press the dough into a disk, then roll it out to about 1/4 inch to 1/8 inch thickness. Press your cookie cutters into the dough, and wiggle them around a bit before lifting. Try to leave at least 1/4 inch between cookie shapes.

Cookie cutters are used to cut shapes out of rolled out Easy Gingerbread Cookies dough- The Goldilocks Kitchen

Next, peel up and remove the excess dough around the cookie cutter shapes, leaving the shaped dough in place. Keep the excess dough so you can make more cookies! Smoosh it together and roll it out again and again until it’s all used up.

Excess Easy Gingerbread Cookies dough is peeled away from the cookie cutter shapes - The Goldilocks Kitchen

If you wish to make some into Christmas tree ornaments, use a straw to cut holes for ribbon or string.

 A straw is used to cut a hole in Easy Gingerbread Cookies cut out shapes so they can be hung as ornaments - The Goldilocks Kitchen

If you work fast enough, the dough should still be cool and you can put it right into the oven to bake. IF the cookie dough has warmed to room temperature, it will spread just a little while baking. If this annoys you, the fix is easy! Place the cookie sheet with the cut out cookie dough on it into the freezer for about 7 minutes. Then put it straight into the oven. This should keep your cookies from spreading.

Continue rolling and cutting another dough ball and place the two batches in the oven at the same time. One on the upper middle rack, and another on the lower middle. Swap shelves half way through and rotate baking sheets from front to back for even baking.

Easy Gingerbread Cookies dough cut-outs are ready to be baked- The Goldilocks Kitchen

Bake until the cookies have darkened slightly in color and are stiff in the middle when pressed gently with a finger. Slide the parchment paper with the cookies still on top, over to a cooling rack to cool for 10 minutes.

Then you put your creative hat on and GO TO TOWN decorating these cuties with Special Royal Icing made just for these kinds of cookies. It’s good to use a frosting that dries hard and fast, ensuring your gingerbread houses are tightly glued and your gingerbread men (and women!) don’t lose their buttons.

Easy Gingerbread Cookies recipe is also great for gingerbread houses. Here are two mini-houses displayed in a miniature Christmas village- The Goldilocks Kitchen

I made these adorable mini-gingerbread houses with a 3D mini gingerbread house cookie cutter I found at World Market. No World Market locations near you? You can order the cutter online here. They are stinking cute and easy to throw together because they’re teeny-tiny!

A closeup picture of a Easy Gingerbread Cookies star decorated with white frosting and edible golden glitter stars- The Goldilocks Kitchen

I hope you have a marvelous time making these Easy Gingerbread Cookies with your family and friends! Also, please rate and review this recipe to help out future readers :0) Thanks!

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Easy Gingerbread Cookies


  • Author: Emily
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 17 minutes
  • Total Time: 47 minutes
  • Yield: 36 Cookies 1x
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The perfect recipe for cut out gingerbread cookies you plan to decorate or hang on a Christmas Tree, these easy Gingerbread Cookies bake up crisp, sturdy and perfectly formed- no blobby or deformed cut out shapes!


Ingredients

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  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 tablespoon ground ginger
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 12 tablespoons unsalted butter cut into chunks, softened but still cool
  • 3/4 cup molasses
  • 2 tablespoons milk
  • parchment paper

Instructions

  1.  Heat your oven to 325 degrees F and move two oven racks to the upper and lower middle position.
  2. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, baking soda and salt. Add butter pieces and mix with a stand mixer or hand held mixer until butter is fully incorporated and mixture looks sandy, about 2 minutes.
  3. Running the mixer on low, slowly add the molasses and milk. Mix until thoroughly combined, scraping down the sides and bottom as necessary. 
  4. Divide the dough into three equal parts and wrap two with plastic wrap and place in the fridge for later. Roll the remaining dough out onto a parchment-paper covered flat baking sheet to a thickness of about 1/4 to 1/8 inch. Press cookie cutouts into dough, leaving about 1/4 inch space between each one. Remove the dough from around the cutouts and set aside for later. Repeat the process with a second dough ball from the fridge. Place both sheets of cookies in oven (leaving them on the parchment paper) and bake for 15-20 minutes, or until firm and slightly darkened. 
  5. While the first batches of cookies bake, remove the last dough ball from the fridge. Repeat preparing cookies to bake. When the first batch of cookies is done, pull the parchment paper and cookies off onto cooling racks. Carefully place the next batches of cookies onto the hot cookie sheets and into the oven to bake. When cooled serve plain or decorate with Royal Icing.
  • Category: Dessert
  • Cuisine: American

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 2 cookies
  • Calories: 196
  • Sugar: 14.4 g
  • Sodium: 160 mg
  • Fat: 7.2 g
  • Saturated Fat: 4.4 g
  • Carbohydrates: 31.5 g
  • Protein: 2.1 g
  • Cholesterol: 18 mg

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The perfect recipe for cut out gingerbread cookies you plan to decorate or hang on a Christmas Tree, these easy Gingerbread Cookies bake up crisp, sturdy and perfectly formed- no blobby or deformed cut out shapes!

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Comments

  1. Wendy Martin says

    December 3, 2018 at 6:50 pm

    Thank you for all your delicious posts…..I hope you have a great holiday season Emily.

    Reply
    • Emily says

      December 3, 2018 at 10:39 pm

      Thank you so much! Merry Christmas to you and your family too :0)

      Reply
  2. Mercedes says

    February 8, 2019 at 4:38 am

    I’m going to try these next year! Maybe this way too I’ll actually eat the house too! Thanks for sharing

    Reply
    • Emily says

      February 9, 2019 at 6:48 pm

      Thank you so much Mercedes :0) Congrats on your adorable little baby!

      Reply

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