Best Simple Gingerbread People Recipes
GINGERBREAD PEOPLE
Every child in the neighborhood has requested this recipe for their Mom. I haven't found a recipe that compares!
Provided by cdagirl
Categories Desserts Cookies Gingerbread Cookie Recipes
Time 1h30m
Yield 36
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter, sugar and corn syrup until smooth. Beat in the egg. Combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and allspice; stir into the creamed mixture. Cover and refrigerate dough for at least 1/2 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets. On a floured surface, roll the dough out to 1/4 inch in thickness. Cut into desired shapes with cookie cutters. Place cookies 1 1/2 inches apart onto cookie sheets.
- Bake for 8 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
- To make the frosting, whip egg whites and cream of tartar until foamy. Gradually add sugar and continue to beat until icing is stiff. Add food coloring if desired and pipe onto cooled cookies. This icing can also be used as a glue to affix candy decorations.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 142 calories, Carbohydrate 22.7 g, Cholesterol 18.7 mg, Fat 5.4 g, Fiber 0.3 g, Protein 1.3 g, SaturatedFat 3.3 g, Sodium 112.4 mg, Sugar 15.2 g
QUICK AND EASY GINGERBREAD PEOPLE
This is the ONLY recipe I use for my Christmas gingerbread because it's perfect every single time. I make this all year long too, because I crave gingerbread sometimes.
Provided by Redneck Epicurean
Categories Dessert
Time 1h30m
Yield 1 batch
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine ingredients. Dough will be soft. Cover with plastic wrap and chill until firm.
- Roll into 1/4 inch and cut with floured cutters. Place on a lightly sprayed sheet.
- Bake 8-10 minutes or until edges start to brown. Cool on a wire rack until room temperature Decorate as desired.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 3811.7, Fat 154.5, SaturatedFat 31.9, Cholesterol 423, Sodium 3537.8, Carbohydrate 563.2, Fiber 12.5, Sugar 301.4, Protein 48.3
GINGERBREAD PEOPLE COOKIES
I was looking for a lighter cookie to make for my office's holiday party and found this on the Cooking Light web site. These looked appealing for taste and presentation and lots of good reviews from CL subsribers.
Provided by justcallmetoni
Categories Dessert
Time 1h30m
Yield 48 cookies, 48 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife.
- Combine the flour and next 7 ingredients (flour through cloves) in a bowl, and set aside.
- Combine granulated sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat at medium speed of a mixer 5 minutes.
- Add molasses and egg white; beat well.
- Add flour mixture to sugar mixture; beat at low speed until well-blended.
- Divide dough in half, and shape each half into a ball, and wrap in plastic wrap.
- Chill 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Working with 1 half of dough at a time (keep remaining half chilled until ready to use), roll the dough to a 1/8-inch thickness on a heavily floured surface; cut with a 2 1/2-inch boy or girl cookie cutter.
- Place gingerbread cookies 1 inch apart on baking sheets coated with cooking spray.
- Arrange currants on cookies as buttons.
- Bake at 350° for 8 minutes.
- Remove from pans; cool on wire racks.
- Combine the powdered sugar, lemon juice, and vanilla in a small bowl.
- Spoon into a decorating bag or a heavy-duty zip-top plastic bag with a tiny hole snipped in 1 corner of bag, and decorate as desired.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 60.3, Fat 1, SaturatedFat 0.6, Cholesterol 2.5, Sodium 33.6, Carbohydrate 12.2, Fiber 0.2, Sugar 6.9, Protein 0.7
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