Happy Holidays everyone and I hope you’re having a fabulous time with your families! I don’t know about you but I don’t think I could ever be able to go through the holiday season without having at least a couple gingerbread cookies.
Gingerbread cookies are a nostalgic cookie for me.
A holiday tradition
Growing up, every Christmas, I would make a gingerbread house with my family.
Usually it would end up a disaster and the “house” would look like it just went through a snow storm by the end of it. The family bonding that comes along with the assembling process left us with memories.
Unfortunately, we’ve slowly forgotten about such a tradition because we all grew up, got busier and formed our own traditions with our friends. It’s a little bittersweet to have such a fun filled tradition disappear but forming new ones are just as wonderful.
School has really been busy for me this past few months because my program is quite intensive. If you aren’t aware, I’m currently doing a one year program to become an elementary school teacher.
I guess the program has brought the child in me back to life because I’ve actually been thinking about making gingerbread people cookies since October!
And I’m so glad that I was finally able to make them because they were so delicious and brought back so many good memories for me 🙂
Question of the day: What’s your family’s holiday tradition?
Gingerbread cookies recipe
- 1/3 cup margarine or butter (can sub coconut oil)
- 2/3 cup dark brown sugar
- 1 egg (or sub 3 tablespoons pumpkin puree)
- 1/3 cup fancy molasses
- 3/4 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups unbleached all purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- In a medium sized bowl combine the flours, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream the butter, and brown sugar together until fluffy. Add in the milk, molasses and vanilla. Beat with an electric mixer for 3 minutes until creamy.
- Sift the flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ground ginger, ground nutmeg, and ground cloves together in a separate bowl. Add the flour mixture to the wet mixture 1/3 at a time making sure to mix in between each addition. Refrigerate the dough for 1 – 2 hours.
- Remove the dough from the fridge. Roll out the dough until it is 1/4″ thick on a lightly floured surface or parchment paper. Cut out shapes with cookie cutters. Continue until all the dough has been used up. Transfer the cookies onto a lined baking sheet. Chill cookie cutouts in the fridge for 30 minutes. While the cookies are chilling, preheat the oven to 325F
- Bake at 325f for 10-12 minutes or until they are lightly browned and the edges are just set.
- Let them cool completely before decorating.
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These cookies look utterly divine – I cannot believe your gingerbread houses ever collapsed, not with these professional-looking fellows!
Thank you so much for sharing these with us at our very special Fiesta Friday celebration. Have a lovely Christmas!
Ginger x
Well, the child in me used to love to overload my gingerbread house roof with candy so perhaps that MAY have contributed to it’s failure 😉
This looks incredible–the gingerbread men look so cute! I have to try making this, even if by the time I can Christmas is over!
Gingerbread cookies are fine all year round in my book (;
These cookies are so cute 😀 Merry Christmas!
Gingerbread cookies always appear a time or two on my Holiday Cookie Table. I think I have the same cutter – perfect when you don’t want to decorate them. Gingerbread houses were a big family tradition in my home for almost 20 years – I miss the tradition! Thanks for bringing your cookies to the big 100 at Fiesta Friday. Happy Holidays…
Adorable cookie cutters make everything all the more festive and fun! I almost miss the devastating moments when my gingerbread houses collapsed due to candy overload on the roof 🙂
The cookies are adorable and they are vegan too, look beautiful and delicious Thank you so much for bringing them to the party,
Thank you Suzanne, hopefully not too adorable to eat 😉
These little gingerbread cookies are just adorable! They would definitely be a hit on my table.
Awww…such adorable little cookies. I wouldn’t have the heart to eat them. they are incredibly cute <3
What darling little gingerbread men! I never thought they could be vegan, too. Give me the butter, tho, hah! Thanks so much for sharing this on Fiesta Friday and Happy New Year!!
Your gingerbreads are so cute! I have never had vegan gingerbreads before but this sounds absolutely delish 🙂