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Visions of Gingerbread Cookies have been dancing in my head since my family and I visited Santa’s Village in Northern New Hampshire back in August.
While in the park, we all smelled the amazing scent of fresh baked cookies. We followed our noses and finally found the source at a bakery. You can’t have Santa’s Village without cookies, right? In this bakery were fresh baked Gingerbread Men and Women ready to be decorated and devoured. They were so good. Warm out of the oven. Not too crispy and not too soft. And it had just the right amount of spice with nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and ginger.
I made a mental note to make Gingerbread cookies when December rolled around. And so did the kids. They’ve been asking weekly!
Here’s a super easy Gingerbread Cookie recipe that’s perfect for cut out cookies and decorating.
Step one: Mix the dry ingredients before adding the wet ingredients.
Step two: Roll the dough into a ball and put it in the fridge to chill for one hour.
Step three: Roll out the dough and cut out the cookies
Step four: Place on a cookie sheet and bake
Step five: Decorate as you wish and enjoy!
For years I’ve been using Pete and Gerry’s Organic Eggs. I love that it’s a New Hampshire based company (that’s available all across the U.S.). But the biggest thing that I love is that it’s a business that’s been in the LaFlamme family for generations. (Did you know it’s Sandra from Organic Runner Mom’s family?) Sourcing eggs from small family farms rather than big box factory farms is of utmost importance for quality of eggs and the treatment of the chickens. Pete and Gerry’s also was the first Certified Humane Free Range egg producer in the country. Their chickens have a safe, comfortable place to live with free access to grass, dirt and ample space to roost, take a dust bath, scratch and all the other things chickens naturally do. What’s not to love about that?
- ¾ C Unsulphured Molasses
- ½ C Coconut Oil, Melted
- ⅓ C Coconut Sugar
- 1 Egg ( I use Pete and Gerry's Organic)
- 2¾ C All Purpose Flour
- 1 Tbsp Baking Powder
- 1 Tbsp Ground Cinnamon
- 1 Tbsp Ground Ginger
- ½ tsp Ground Cloves
- ⅛ tsp Ground Nutmeg
- In large bowl, beat molasses, melted coconut oil, coconut sugar and egg till well blended.
- In separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and nutmeg.
- Stir molasses mixture into flour mixture.
- Roll mixture into a ball and cover with plastic wrap before placing in refrigerator for at least one hour or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees when ready to bake.
- Lightly flour surface and rolling pin. Unwrap dough and roll ball out till desired thickness.
- Cut out cookies with cookie cutters. Place each cookie on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Repeat process as many times as needed for remaining dough.
- Bake cookies at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Once done, remove from oven and let cool for 5-10 minute on cookie sheet before transferring to cooling rack to cool completely.
- Enjoy as is or decorate!
Linking up with Meatless Monday and Foodie Friday.
What’s your favorite holiday treat?
I get stuck on latkes and sufganyot (fried donuts) for hanukkah
I BET MY GIRL WOULD LOVE TO MAKE THIS…
I bet my MIL would love to help.
win win
xo
I LOVE gingerbread cookies! These look delicious and so easy to make! Going to give a GF version a try π
So classic, and so much fun to play with. OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!
I love this because I’m doing a cookie making post too (but with Nellie’s) and, as I told Sarah, mine is going to be oh….um, slightly different. Let’s just say I needed to purchase a rolling pin and I had no clue how to use cookie cutters. The boys loved it and we all lived so I guess this is good π
Your photos look amazing and almost make me want to bake. Almost.
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easy and delicious my fave kind of cookie! Thanks for linking up today
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I love the smell of gingerbread cookies filling the house!! I also love Pete and Gerry’s organic eggs-3 dozen in my fridge as I type this comment! I was telling a mom at the track meet on Saturday that these are the best eggs! Loving the cookie posts from you and Sarah!
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We make gingerbread people every year- it’s definitely my favorite tradition! And yours are adorable! Of course, this year was a bit more complictated since our oven died last week. I had the dough in the fridge so we made them at a friend’s house instead. π
I made gingerbread cookies yesterday! So yummy!!
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Your gingerbread men are so stinking cute!!! I need to bake cookies with my kids and have been totally procrastinating! We usually do sugar cookies but maybe I can convince them to do gingerbread cookies instead. And LOVE Pete and Gerry’s eggs!
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Gingerbread are my favorite Christmas cookie! I really like how your recipes uses coconut oil in them – yum!
I love Pete and Gerry’s eggs – I wish they had them out here in the PNW!
These are adorable! I love making gingerbread cookies but I honestly don’t have the right artistic equipment to make mine cute. I end up getting “too creative” and messing them up. They still taste good, though… π Yours look great!
Who says ginger bread it’s not easy to bake ginger bread? Well, thank you for this classic recipe and I’m sure more of us are wanting to know your blog.
There is nothing more Christmasy than Gingerbread men and women (don’t want to leave anyone out! lol) I feel like I’m right there with you making these. Hug those cutie twins fro me.
Thanks for sharing