Easy Homemade Gingerbread Dough

5 from 1 vote

Easy Homemade Gingerbread Dough

Easy homemade gingerbread dough with molasses recipe so you can make and decorate gingerbread men or cookies at home at Christmas time. Fun kids activity.

Prep Time15

Cook Time8

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: cookies, dough, gingerbread, homemade, men

Servings:

Author: Justine

Equipment

1 baking sheet
1 Bowl
1 gingerbread men cookie cutter

Ingredients

10 tbsp butter unsalted, room temperature
1/4 c brown sugar drak
1/2 c brown sugar light
2/3 c molasses
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
3.5 c all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp ginger ground
1 tbsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg

Instructions

With a mixer, beat the butter and sugars together until creamy. Add in the molasses and mix together. Then add egg and vanilla. Mix until incorporated.
In a separate bowl add and mix all dry ingredients together. Slowly add dry into your wet mixture. Mix until combined and the consistency of playdough.
Divide dough in half and wrap each half in plastic wrap. Flatten so it looks like a large hockey puck.
Place dough into fridge for at least 3 hours. Then take out and on a generously floured cutting board roll out one half of dough into 1/4" thick all the way across.
Use cookie cutters to cut into shapes. Line baking sheet with parchment paper and lay cookies with a bit of space in between.
Place pan into fridge again for 1 hour to chill. Then preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Bake for 8-10 minutes just until the edges are firmer and cookies are beginning to crack all over, even in the center. A bit longer will yield a crispier harder result.
Put pan on cooling rack but leave on pan to cool completely and harden more. Then decorate when room temperature.

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