With a fruitcake and roasted turkey from our previous recipes for Christmas dinner, your dinner table is surely looking good. How about adding some cookies to the mix? Gingerbread cookies taste great and share the same theme of healthiness with fruitcakes so let's see how we can make these little snacks for life after your roasted turkey.
Step One - Flour mixture
For this you will need about 1 teaspoon of ground nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves. Create a mixture of 5-6 cups multipurpose flour and 1 teaspoon of baking powder. Stir up well and throw in the nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon. Stir again until the mixture is homogeneous.
Step Two - Add in the other ingredients
Transfer your mixture to a bigger bowl. Then mix in 1 cup of molasses, liquid shortening and brown sugar and stir well before you add an egg and cup of water. Add in one teaspoon of vanilla into the mix and stir again.
Step Three - Cut your Dough
When your dough has formed in shape (it should by now, if not you have added too much water somehow), roll it flat using a roller until it is about inch thick. Be sure to do this on a board layered with flour so the dough doesn't stick. Once that is done, apply cookie cutters to get your desired shapes. Slowly put your cookies onto a sheet of baking plate laid with a thin layer of baking paper. Space the cookies out a little.
Step Four - Bake it
Baking is simple here. Just put the tray into the oven at 350 Fahrenheit for about 15 min and they are done. Take care in transferring them from the tray to the cooling rack. Once they are cooled completely, you can enjoy your fresh gingerbread cookies!
Step One - Flour mixture
For this you will need about 1 teaspoon of ground nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves. Create a mixture of 5-6 cups multipurpose flour and 1 teaspoon of baking powder. Stir up well and throw in the nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon. Stir again until the mixture is homogeneous.
Step Two - Add in the other ingredients
Transfer your mixture to a bigger bowl. Then mix in 1 cup of molasses, liquid shortening and brown sugar and stir well before you add an egg and cup of water. Add in one teaspoon of vanilla into the mix and stir again.
Step Three - Cut your Dough
When your dough has formed in shape (it should by now, if not you have added too much water somehow), roll it flat using a roller until it is about inch thick. Be sure to do this on a board layered with flour so the dough doesn't stick. Once that is done, apply cookie cutters to get your desired shapes. Slowly put your cookies onto a sheet of baking plate laid with a thin layer of baking paper. Space the cookies out a little.
Step Four - Bake it
Baking is simple here. Just put the tray into the oven at 350 Fahrenheit for about 15 min and they are done. Take care in transferring them from the tray to the cooling rack. Once they are cooled completely, you can enjoy your fresh gingerbread cookies!
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