Gingerbread Snowflake Cookies
- Prep Time: 1 hour 30 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 1 hour 40 mins
- Yield: 5 dozen 1x
- Category: Gingerbread Snowflake Cookies
- Cuisine: Dessert
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup butter (no substitutions)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup molases
- 1/4 cup water
- 5 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 1/2 tsp. ground ginger
- 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground all-spice
- 1/4 tsp salt
- FROSTING
- 3 3/4 cup powdered sugar (1 lb packdge will work)
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 1/2 tsp light corn syrup
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar together.
- Beat in molasses and water until blended.
- In another bowl, combine flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, all-spice and salt.
- Slowly add to creamy mixture until blended.
- Form into ball.
- Refrigerate for at least 1 hour (until easy to handle)
- Lightly flour your surface and roll dough into 1/4″ thickness.
- Cut with floured cookie cutters and place on ungreased baking sheet.
- Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes or until edges are firm.
- Move to wire rack to cool.
- FROSTING
- Mix all items in the order given.
- Beat until smooth.
- Put frosting in a large plastic bag.
- Cut a small amount off of the corner of the bag.
- Pipe the designs you want onto the snowflakes (circles, lines, etc).
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