Decorated Gingerbread Cookies

Name: Decorated Gingerbread Cookies
Yield: About 60 large cookies
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ⅔ cup light or dark brown sugar; 2 large eggs; ⅔ cup unsulfured molasses; 1 pound confectioners’ sugar; ½ teaspoon ground cloves; ½ teaspoon baking soda; ½ pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter; ⅔ cup light or dark brown sugar; Raisins, currants, nutmeats, colored sugar sprinkles, and other decorations; Raisins, currants, nutmeats, colored sugar sprinkles, and other decorations; Raisins, currants, nutmeats, colored sugar sprinkles, and other decorations; Raisins, currants, nutmeats, colored sugar sprinkles, and other decorations; 3 large egg whites; 1 drop lemon juice or vinegar; 1 drop lemon juice or vinegar; Food coloring; 4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour; ½ teaspoon grated nutmeg; 1 teaspoon salt; 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 1 tablespoon ground ginger

Preparation info

About
60
large cookies

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How to Bake

By Nick Malgieri

Published 1995

About

Resist the urge to add more flour to this soft dough—better to have patience and chill it until it may be easily rolled. The bonus is delicate and tender cookies—and the scraps reroll perfectly, making cookies just as tender as the first ones to be rolled.

Ingredients

Dough

4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon ground ginger
2

Americas
United States
Cookies
Vegetarian

Method

For the dough, add the dry ingredients (except sugar) to a mixing bowl and stir well to combine.
Beat the butter and sugar by machine and beat in the eggs, one at a time. Continue beating until the mixture is smooth. Beat in half the flour mixture, then stop and scrape the bowl and beater(s). Beat in the molasses, scrape again, and beat in the remaining flour m