Our favorite Gingerbread cookies recipe

We all love to dress up the holidays with fun & spicy cookies! This is one of our favorite recipe for gingerbread cookies we've found so far.

THE RECIPE:

Ingredients:
Cookies
5 cups flour
2 tablespoons ground ginger
1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup shortening
1 egg
1 cup molasses
2 tablespoons vinegar

Frosting
6 tablespoons butter
4 1/2 cups confectioner's sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla


Cooking Instructions:
In a stand mixer bowl with a flat beater attached, add granulated sugar and shortening and set to speed 4 until it is light and fluffy. Beat in egg, molasses and vinegar.

In a large bowl mix together flour, ground ginger, baking soda, ground cloves and salt. Reduce the speed to stir and mix in the flour mixture, in 3 additions.

Divide the dough into 3 disks and wrap with plastic. Refrigerate the dough for at least 3 hours.

To prepare the frosting: In a stand mixer bowl with the flat beater attached and set to speed 4, beat butter until it's smooth and creamy. Reduce the speed mix in confectioner's sugar in 2 additions and vanilla. Set frosting aside.

Preheat oven to 375 F.

Flour work surface and rolling pin. Work with one disk at a time. Roll out dough to a 1/8 of an inch thickness.

Using a cookie cutter, cut out your shapes and place them at least 2 inches apart on a baking sheet. Cookies will take about 5 minutes to cook. Transfer to a cooling rack.

Make sure the cookies are completely cooled before frosting.
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INGREDIENTS:
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup unsalted margarine
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla

Icing:
3 cups powdered sugar
Whites of 2 large eggs or meringue powder
1 teaspoon lemon juice

DIRECTIONS:
Grease a cookie sheet. Stir together flour, baking powder and salt. In bowl with mixer on medium, beat margarine for 30 seconds. Add the sugar, and beat until fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla, and beat well. Add dry ingredients, mix well. Cover and chill for one hour.

Divide dough into quarters, and roll each out to a 9 1/2-inch circle. Invert a 9-inch pie plate over the dough, and trim dough around it so you have a dough circle. Slice the circle into 8 pie- shaped wedges with a sharp knife. Put wedges on cookie sheet. Bend over each tip to form that hat tassel.

Bake at 375 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes. Cool completely.

Meanwhile, beat egg whites on high until soft peaks form. Beat in powdered sugar and lemon juice until stiff. Pipe white frosting on cookies to form the pompom of the hat, the brim of the hat and Santa's beard. Tint a small amount of the frosting red, and form the mouth. Tint a small amount of the frosting green and pipe on for the eyes.

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