I am preparing to make gingerbread cookies for my daughter's classroom. Any tips?!
Answers: I bake cookies for them every Wednesday. All suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Make the cookies small (1 1/2"-2" size) because some kids don't like the taste, or it's strange and they are afraid of it. Also, chill the dough thoroughly; make it the night before and bring the dough in a log to school to slice and bake and decorate when cooled.
Even if you bake them at home, chill the dough first.
how old are they? I decided to bake gingerbread men for my son's Kindergarten class one time, and they all just picked the candies off them and didn't eat the cookies. The teacher told me that little kids tend to not like spicy cookies or cakes. Oh well, they were cute. If the kids are older it might be ok. Try allrecipes.com for some good recipes.
throw in some ganja!
Gingerbread Cookies
Ingredients-
1 cup white sugar
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 cup margarine, melted
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1 cup unsulfured molasses
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 teaspoon lemon extract
4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
Preparation-
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease cookie sheets.
In a large bowl, stir together the sugar, ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, salt, and baking soda. Mix in the melted margarine, evaporated milk, molasses, vanilla, and lemon extracts. Stir in the flour, 1 cup at a time, mixing well after each addition. The dough should be stiff enough to handle without sticking to fingers. If necessary, increase flour by up to 1/2 cup to prevent sticking.
When the dough is smooth, roll it out to 1/4 inch thick on a floured surface, and cut into cookies. Place cookies on the prepared cookie sheets.
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven. The cookies are done when the top springs back when touched. Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks.
for good recipes u can go to www.northpole.com and go mrs clause's kitchen. u will get good recipes for it there.
Well, if you mean any tips for recipes of gingerbread cookies, then I would say to make sure that you find a recipe that leaves you with a slightly soft cookie. I have found that most recipes for gingerbread cookies end up being very dry and beyond crispy, hard. And they are easy to over cook or burn on the bottom. So if you find a soft cookie recipe you would be better off, as a lot of kids can be in the loose teeth stage of life and you don't want them biting down on something hard enough to cause a problem. I have had some that I had to dunk in a hot beverage to make them soft enough to bite into. But/and if you were asking on ideas of what to do with them, I would make it easier on yourself, and just make round cookies, and put a green frosting smiley face on half and a red frosting smiley face on the other half. Maybe white frosting eyebrows. Make them about the size of a peanut butter jar lid, and you will be able to decorate them easier.