Today we had our first Christmas gathering of the year! Which means I whipped out some of my favorite recipes so that I could share. Every time I make these gingerbread cookies, they all get eaten...just like they did today at our gathering. They have a mild honey-ginger flavor, and they are super easy to make. I see more gingerbread men dancing into our kitchen very soon, now that the holiday season has officially begun!
Ingredients
1/2 c. sugar
3 c. all purpose flour
2 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt
2 t. ground ginger
2 t. cinnamon
1/2 t. ground cloves
1/2 t. ground nutmeg
1 c. butter, cut into dots and brought to room temperature
1/2 c. honey
Combine sugar, flour, soda, salt and spices. Cut dry ingredients into butter with pastry blender. You can work the ingredients together with your fingertips if you do not have a pastry blender. Add honey and stir until well blended.
Cover bowl and refrigerate for at least one hour. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
When dough is chilled, heat oven to 350 degrees. On lightly floured surface, roll the dough out about 1/8 in. thick. (I have found it's helpful to take a handful of dough and spend a minute mashing it together into a ball before rolling it out. The dough will seem crumbly until you do this.) Use cookie cutters to cut out shapes and move the cookies to prepared baking sheet. Bake 10-12 minutes, or until just golden at the edges.
Here are the cookies after adding frosting!
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