Gingerbread Boys and Girls
These cute little gingerbread boys and girls taste as delicious as they look! Full of molasses and warm spices, they’re the perfect Christmas cookie for dunking into a cup of hot cocoa.
This is a fun cookie to bake with the kids. Rolling out the dough, cutting the shapes, baking them, and then the best part is decorating them. Actually the best part is eating them after decorating them. Wouldn’t you agree?!
Merry Christmas and happy cookie baking,
~Rachel Ballinger ☕️🎄
Gingerbread Boys and Girls
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 stick butter softened
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- Icing:
Icing:
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 to 2 tbsp milk
- food coloring as desired
- Colored sugar
- Red hot candies
Instructions
- Using a mixer, cream the sugar and butter together. Add the eggs and molasses mixing well. Add the baking soda, salt, and spices and mix. Slowly add the flour mixing well. The dough will seem dry and crumbly. Finish mixing in the flour with a big spoon and then use your hands to form the dough into a ball.
- Remove the dough from the bowl and wrap in plastic wrap; place in the refrigerator to chill for about 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- When ready to bake, allow the dough to sit at room temperature for about 15 minutes, until pliable. Take about a cup of dough at a time and roll out on a floured surface until about 1/8 inch thick. Cut out with gingerbread boy and girl cookie cutters. Transfer the cookies to cookie sheets.
- Bake for 10 minutes or until just beginning to brown at the edges. Transfer to wire racks or parchment paper to cool.
Icing:
- To make the icing, combine the powdered sugar and milk and mix until smooth. Divide the mixture into thirds; leave one-third white, and color one-third green and the final third red.
- Decorate piping eyes, mouths, buttons, and bow ties. Or make it all white and decorate with colored sugar and red hot candy.