Recipe

Ginger Maple Cutout Cookies Recipe

	Morninlite / All my dishes 11 months, 2 weeks ago I found this in our local Kalamazoo Women's Life Style magazine. They looked wonderful! I only bake three different kinds of cookies each year, (The kids have the attention span of a goldfish!) so, I'm making, My gingerbread children, sortbread and... More Cook:8m Servings:2	Morninlite
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Ingredients

2/3 cup vegtable shortening

1/3 cup butter softened

1 cup maple syrup at room temperature

1 Tbs molasses

1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

4 cups whole-wheat flour

2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp ginger

1/4 tsp ground clove

1/4 tsp nutmeg

Directions

Cream together shortening and butter in a large bowl. Gradually beat in maple syrup, molasses and vanilla. Mix flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, cloves and nutmeg and work them into creamed mixture about 1 cup at a time.

Using floured hands, divide dough in half and wrap each half in plastic; flatten each into a disk. Chill at least 2 hours.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and lightly grease baking sheet or line with ungreased parchment paper. Roll dough out, one half at a time, onto sheet of waxed paper, to a little less than 1/4 inch thick. Cut inot desired shapes, transfe to baking sheet and bake 8 to 10 minutes, until bottoms are golden.

Cool briefly on sheet, transfer to wire rack to finish cooling.

Decorate as desired.

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