Gingerbread Cookies

 ✅Ingredients

• 6 tablespoons salted butter, softened

• 1/4 cup brown sugar, tightly packed

• 1/3 cup dark molasses

• 1 large egg

• 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

• 3/4 teaspoon ground ginger

• 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice

• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 1¾ cups all-purpose flour

✅Instructions

00:03:25 - Quick recap Ginger Bread Cookies recipe

1️⃣ 00:00:12 - Use a hand mixer or stand mixer to cream butter and brown sugar until fluffy. Mix in molasses, egg, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, cloves, baking soda, and salt until smooth, scraping the sides as necessary. Add in the flour until well incorporated.

2️⃣ 00:01:22 - Remove the dough from the bowl and wrap the dough in plastic wrap. Refrigerate 1 hour.

3️⃣ Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

4️⃣ 00:01:36 - Roll the dough out to 1/4-inch thickness on a lightly floured surface. Use a gingerbread man cookie cutter (or other shapes) to cut out cookies. Lay cut cookies on the prepared baking sheet, 1 to 2 inches apart. Re-roll the dough as necessary to cut out cookies until dough is gone.

5️⃣ 00:02:06 - Bake in the preheated oven for 10-12 minutes.

6️⃣ 00:02:12 - Let cool on pan for 2 minutes before removing and cooling on a wire rack. Cool completely (about 30 minutes) before decorating.