Delicious soft & chewy Homemade Gingerbread Men cookies are perfect for holidays!
It’s crazy busy fun holiday season and we hope that wherever you are, you are safe, happy, planning a great Christmas with your loved ones! Remember when I made those cute mini gingerbread houses sometime back, well I still had a lot of dough left in my freezer and I decided what better way but to make some homemade gingerbread men for holidays!
And to tell you the truth, these are the best gingerbread men cookies I have ever tasted. I always used to find them hard, flavorless and sort of not like a cookie at all! But these – >> these are soft, chewy, sweet and perfectly spiced with all the ginger & cinnamon. So delicious and dipped in warm cocoa or cold glass of milk – best after dinner treat ever! This week I have lot of recipes to share with you all with all delicious ideas for holidays but I would be keeping it short and sweet as well everyone is busy and nobody really has the time to read all of my stories!
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- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- ¾ cup dark brown sugar
- ¼ cup light molasses
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 1 - 2 tablespoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons water or more as needed
- In the bowl of your stand mixer or if doing by hand in a large bowl, cream butter, brown sugar, molasses, cinnamon, ginger, baking soda. Once it's all smooth, add flour and water and stir to make it into a smooth dough.
- Wrap it in plastic wrap and chill them in refrigerator for 30 mins or so. At this point, you can even freeze it for upto a month and just thaw at room temperature for few hours before making cookies.
- Keep it aside.
- Now preheat oven to 350F.
- Divide the dough into 2 parts and while you work on first part, keep the other dough part wrapped in refrigerator.
- Roll out the dough to ¼" thickness on a floured surface. Using your gingerbread men cookie cutter, cut shapes and then transfer to a parchment paper lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 4-6 minutes or until golden but not overly cooked. You want them to be just enough cooked so centers are soft & chewy!
Gingergread men recipe adapted from HERE.
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I have never made my own gingerbread men before, but these would go perfectly with the gingerbread hot chocolate that I posted on my blog today 🙂