My favorite part about December is definitely all the treats that I NEED to eat. From the cookies, to the hot cocoa, it’s nice to make these as a family, rolling out the dough, decorating, contesting who’s is the best “dressed” and who’s tastes best. I love to make my cookies have scenes that they’re acting in, maybe they’re caroling, or dancing, or even in the hospital with a “broken” or rather “eaten” leg. Use that imagination for all the possible scenes you can create!
Ingredients:
- 3 cups of flour
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 tablespoon ground ginger
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons butter
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ cup molasses
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
Directions:
- In a bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, gineger, cinnamon, cloves, and salt till blended.
- In a larger bowl, beat the butter, egg, and brown sugar with an electric blender on medium till blended
- Add vanilla and molasses to the larger bowl until blended
- Slowly stir in the dry ingredients into the larger bowl
- Divide the dough in half and wrap each half in plastic and let it stand at room temperature for 2 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and grease a cookie sheet
- Grease your cookie sheet
- Place one of your halves of cookie dough on a floured surface and sprinkle flour over the dough and a rolling pin
- Roll the dough so it is ¼ inch thick
- Cut out the cookies with your cookie cutters.
- Space the cookies 2 inches apart on the cookie sheet
- Back one sheet at a time for 10 minutes.
- Remove the cookie sheet from the oven and allow the cookies to stand until they are firm.
- Decorate them!
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