Gingerbread People

One of the cookies I made this year for christmas was Gingerbread Men People.

This was a relatively easy recipe. I think I rolled them too thin because they were pretty fragile. My platter looked like a battlefield - broken heads, legs, arms, people broken in half... but they were pretty tasty anyways.

An important lesson I learned was do not frost when you are tired. Seriously.. some of them just looked ragged or messy... and I had a failed attempt at red frosting that turned out hot pink.. lol..

Oh and I didnt take much pictures because i forgot..

Ingredients
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour

3/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup water

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon ground ginger

1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

1/2 cup butter at room temp

1/2 cup molasses

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• Preheat oven to 350
• sift together flour, salt, baking soda, nutmeg, ginger, cloves and cinnamon and set aside
• cream butter and sugar until smooth
• Beat in the molasses, water and vanilla
• Gradually mix in the flour mixture a little at a time
• Cover with plastic wrap and refridgerate 2 hours or until firm.
  (I left mine in for about half a day)
• On a lightly floured surface - roll out dough just under 1/4" thick.
• Use cookie cutters of your choice
  

• Place cookies on a greased cookie sheet
• Bake 9 - 12 minutes
• Let cool five minutes and then move to a wire rack to cool
  
  

  

• Frost (or not) and enjoy!