Steps to Prepare Homemade Traditional Gingerbread Men Cookies

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, traditional gingerbread men cookies. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have traditional gingerbread men cookies using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Traditional Gingerbread Men Cookies:

1. Prepare 3 cups flour
2. Get 2 tsp ground ginger
3. Take 1 tsp ground cinnamon
4. Take 1 tsp baking soda
5. Make ready 1 \4 tsp ground nutmeg
6. Get 1 \4 tsp salt
7. Make ready 3 \4 cup melted unsalted butter
8. Take 3 \4 cup brown sugar
9. Make ready 1 \2 cup molasses
10. Get 1 egg

Steps to make Traditional Gingerbread Men Cookies:

1. Mix flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, and salt in a large bowl.
2. Beat butter and brown sugar in large bowl. I find an electric mixer makes this part easier. Mix until it is light and fluffy.
3. Add molasses and egg. Beat well.
4. Gradually beat in flour mixture on low speed (electric mixer) until well mixed.
5. Press dough into a thick, flat disc. Wrap in wax paper. Place in refrigerator overnight. I find rolling out the dough before chilling makes it easier on you the next day.
6. Next day: Preheat oven to 350.
7. Roll dough into 1/4 inch thick on floured wax paper. Cut out gingerbread men with a cookie cutter.
8. Place gingerbread men on greased cookie sheet and bake in oven for 8-10minutes. Look for the edges of the cookies to just start to turn brown. Then, you know they are done.
9. Let cookies cool for about 5 minutes. Then, decorate as desired with icing, gumdrops, candy, etc.

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