Recipe: Tasty Gingerbread cookies

Gingerbread cookies. This classic cut-out gingerbread cookie recipe is easy to make, perfect for decorating, and always so delicious. Here is my favorite gingerbread cookies recipe and one of the most popular Christmas cookie recipes on this website. Whenever I think of Christmas cookies, gingerbread cookies come to mind first.

Bust out your cookie cutter and make this classic Christmas treat! You can cut them into gingerbread men or use. These holiday gingerbread cookies are filled with sugar, spice and everything nice. You can have Gingerbread cookies using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Gingerbread cookies

1. You need 1 cup of sugar.
2. Prepare 2 cups of all purpose flour.
3. Prepare 1 of egg.
4. You need 2 teaspoons of ground ginger.
5. It's 1 teaspoon of baking soda.
6. It's 3/4 teaspoons of ground cinnamon.
7. It's 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
8. You need of Filling:.
9. It's 2 cups of powdered sugar.
10. Prepare 2 tablespoons of butter.
11. It's 2 tablespoons of milk (or more).

Win your Christmas cookie swap by making one of these festive treats. Whether or not you actually like gingerbread cookies is kinda irrelevant. Melted butter will lead to denser cookies. We like our gingerbread people soft and almost a little fluffy.

Gingerbread cookies step by step

1. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg. Combine the flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture and mix well.
2. Roll into 1 1 /2 inch balls, Then roll in sugar. Place 2 inches apart on parchment lined baking sheets. Bake at 350°F for 10 to 12 minutes or until puffy and lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool..
3. Filling: place all ingredients in a medium size bowl and beat with a wooden spoon until smooth. Add more milk as needed. Frost cookies (once cooled off,) and enjoy!🙂.

At the holidays, gingerbread cookies are a dessert staple. These crispy cookies are full of delicious spices that give them a distinctive flavor. While there is quite a bit of prep work involved in making. This is my very favorite gingerbread cookie recipe. The dough is so firm and nice to work with and is so wonderful smelling that it is almost like a stress reliever.