Each year I make homemade gingerbread houses for my kids and preschoolers. For the life of myself I couldn't find my recipe, so I searched the internet for hours for a good recipe that didn't require any boiling or weird ingredients. After a few other recipe failures, I came upon these 2 recipes from allrecipes.com. They are the bomb!! The house recipe tastes like graham crackers. My kids begged me to make more just so they could eat them. And I had numerous requests from my preschool mommies for the cookie recipe... it's that good!! One thing to note is that I had to add more flour to both recipes. So if your dough is still too creamy and not stiff and rollable then keep adding flour! (I hesitate to say how much more because I live 6500 ft above sea level and so it's going to be different depending on where you live :)
Gingerbread Man Cookies
½ cup butter,
softened
½ cup brown
sugar
2/3 cup
molasses
2 eggs
4 cups flour,
divided
½ tsp baking
soda
½ tsp salt
½ tsp
allspice
½ tsp cloves
½ tsp
cinnamon
½ tsp ginger
Preheat oven
to 350F. In a large bowl, craem together the butter and brown sugar until
smooth. Stir in the molasses and eggs Combine 1 ½ cups of the flour, baking
soda, salt, allspice, cloves, cinnamon, and ginger; beat into the molasses
mixture. Gradually stir in the remaining flour by hand to form a stiff dough.
(I had to add a lot more flour). On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough
to 1/8” thickness. Cut out and place 1” apart on cookie sheets. Bake for 8-10
min in the oven.
Gingerbread House Dough
¾ cup butter
7/8 cup
packed light brown sugar
1 ½ tsp lemon
juice
½ cup
molasses
2 eggs
3 cups flour
(I had to add 2 ½ more cups)
2 tsp baking
powder
1 tbsp ginger
2 tsp
allspice
In a large
bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in lemon zest, lemon
juice, and molasses. Gradually beat in 2 eggs. Sift the flour, baking powder
and spices together; stir into creamed mixture. Turn dough onto a lightly floured
surface. Roll out and cut out your house shapes. In a preheated 375F oven, bake
for 10 min. Transfer to wire racks. Leave overnight to harden.
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