Gingerbread People
From paulasue1 16 years ago
- 10-12 minutes to make
- Serves 30
This Betty Crocker recipe is an old holiday favorite, and kids love to help make them as much as they like to eat them.
Ingredients
- gingerBREAD PEOPLE shopping list
- 1/1/2 cups dark molasses shopping list
- 1 cup packed brown sugar shopping list
- 2/3 cup cold water shopping list
- 1/3 cup shortening shopping list
- 7 cups all-purpose flour* shopping list
- 2 tsp. baking soda shopping list
- 1 tsp. salt shopping list
- 1 tsp. ground allspice shopping list
- 2 tsp. ground ginger shopping list
- 1 tsp. ground cloves shopping list
- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon shopping list
- Decorator’s frosting shopping list
- *If using self- rising flour, omit baking soda and salt. shopping list
How to make it
- Mix molasses, brown sugar, water and shortening.
- Mix in remaining ingredients except frosting.
- Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Roll dough ¼ inch thick on floured board.
- Cut with floured gingerbread cutter or other favorite shaped cutter.
- Place about 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet sprayed with Pam or greased.
- Bake until no indentation remains when touched, about 10 to 12 minutes; cool.
- Decorate with decorator’s frosting. Makes about 2 ½ dozen, 2 ½ inch cookies.
- DECORATOR’S FROSTING
- 2 cups powered sugar
- 2 to 3 TBS. water (Go slow on adding water)
- Food coloring of your choice
- Use just enough water to make a very stiff frosting that can be piped through a decorator’s tube, a cone made from waxed paper, or a zip lock baggy with just the very tip cut off. After combining your sugar and water, separate frosting into small bowls and add different food coloring as desired. I RECOMMEND buying decorator’s frosting already prepared with tips of different shapes that twist onto the tubes of frosting. Most stores carry this in the cake mix isle.
- PLEASE NOTE
- This frosting sets like cement so that gingerbread people can be stacked once frosting dries. IT IS NOT the kind of frosting to ice a cake with. It has NO butter, vanilla, or salt.
- GINGERBREAD COOKIES
- Decrease flour to 6 cups. Roll dough ½ inch thick and cut with floured 2 ½ inch round cutter. Place about 1 ½ inch apart on lighted greased cookie sheet. Bake about 15 minutes.
The Rating
Reviewed by 6 people-
Love those classic recipes! My kids enjoy gingerbread; the pic is very cute!
juels
in Clayton loved it
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I love gingerbread. I have to make these soon. Thanks for posting!
jett2whit
in Union City loved it
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grandsons making these at other grandmas tonite awsome recipe thanks
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in Mountianview loved it
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