Simple Way to Make Homemade Gingerbread People

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, gingerbread people. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Gingerbread People is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Gingerbread People is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have gingerbread people using 12 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Gingerbread People:

1. Prepare 2 1/4 cup All purpose flour
2. Get 2 tsp Ground cinnamon
3. Prepare 2 tsp Ground ginger
4. Make ready 1 tsp Baking powder
5. Make ready 1/2 tsp Salt
6. Get 1/4 tbsp Ground cloves
7. Prepare 1/4 tsp Ground nutmeg
8. Get 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter softened
9. Prepare 1/2 cup Packed light brown sugar
10. Make ready 1/2 cup Dark molasses
11. Make ready 1 each Egg
12. Make ready 1 as needed Decorations

Steps to make Gingerbread People:

1. Combine flour cinnamon ginger baking powder salt cloves and nutmeg. Beat butter and brown sugar in large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in molasses and egg. gradually add flour mixture. Beat until well blended. Shape dough into 3 discs wrap in plastic. Refrigerate 1 hr or until firm.
2. Preheat oven to 350°F working with one disc at a time place on lightly floured surface. Roll out dough with lightly floured rolling pin to 3/16 in thickness. Cut dough into gingerbread people with floured 5 in cutters. Place on ungreased cookie sheets. Press dough trimmings together gently. Reroll and cut out more cookies.
3. Bake about 12 min or until edges are golden brown. Let cookies stand on cookie sheets 1 min. Remove to wire racks to cool completely.
4. Decorate if you please

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