Can anyone give me a good recipe for Ginger bread men????!
Can anyone give me a good recipe for Ginger bread men????
My kids love em and i would like to make some for them and obviously get them to join in a fartherly thing you know ;)
ps i love em too ;)
Answers:
Best Gingerbread Men
These are the best gingerbread men I've ever made, and they are easy to roll and cut out (and I hate making cut-out cookies!) We like to use decorating sweets like smarties or jelly tots prior to baking.
24 cookies
35 min 20 min prep 3/4 cup margarine
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup molasses
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/4-1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4-1/2 teaspoon ginger
3 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Cream margarine and sugar together. Add egg and mix. Add molasses and spice and stir well.
In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt.
Add flour mixture to creamed mixture a bit at a time. Stir after each addition.
Turn dough onto floured surface and knead a couple of times to make sure it is well mixed.
Divide dough in half, wrap half in plastic wrap and set aside (I put in the refrigerator).
Roll out half the dough on floured surface with floured rolling pin to about 1/4-inch thickness.Cut with floured gingerbread man cutter.
Place 1/2-inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
Decorate with candies now or wait until cookies are cool and decorate with frosting.
Bake at 325 degrees for 12 minutes or until edges are slightly browned.
Remove cookies to wire rack to cool.
Store cookies tightly covered for up to 2 weeks.
get ginger bread and a male arm and stir till soft and stick them in a oven
Makes about 8 (5 inch long) fat men or 16 thinner ones.
Blend until creamy:
1/4 c. butter
1/2 c. white or brown sugar
Beat in:
1/2 c. dark molasses
Sift:
3 1/2 c. flour
Re sift with:
1 tsp. soda
1/4 tsp. cloves
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. salt
Add the sifted ingredients to the butter mixture i about 3 parts alternately with:
5 tbsp. or more water
You will have to work in the last of the flour mixture with your hands. If you want crude men roll a ball for a head, a larger ball for the body and cylinders for the arms and legs. stick them together on a greased pan to form a fat boy. If you want something looking less like primitive man, roll the dough to any thickness you like. A good way to do this is to grease the bottom of a baking sheet and to roll the dough directly onto it. Now cut out your figures either with a floured cookie cutter or make a pattern of your own in the following: Fold a square or stiff paper or light cardboard lengthwise and cut it out as desired. Unfold it and you have a symmetrical pattern. Grease one side of the pattern and place it on the rolled dough. Cut around the outlines with a sharp knife. Remove the scraps of dough between the figures. Use the scraps to make more men.
Decorate the figures before baking them with small raisins, bits of candied cherry, red hots, decorettes, citron, etc. indicating features, buttons, etc. After baking the men may receive further decorations as described below.
Bake the cookies in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for about 8 minutes or according to their thickness. Test them with a toothpick. Remove them at once from the pans. Let them cool.
Stir in a small bowl to make a paste: 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar and a few drops of water. You may add a drop or two of coloring. Apply the icing with a toothpick or small knife to make additional garnishes such as caps, hair, mustaches, belts, shoes, etc. Children love to make these.
1) 2/3 cup shortening
2) 1/2 cup brown sugar, pack
3) 1 tsp cinnamon
4) 1/4 tsp ground cloves
5) 2 tsp ground ginger
6) pinch salt
7) 3/4 cup molasses
8) 1 egg
9) 3 cups flour
10) 1/2 tsp baking powder
11) 1 tsp baking soda
Cream together first 6 ingredients. Add egg and mix. Add molasses and mix again.
Mix together flour, baking powder and baking soda in a separate bowl. Sift. Add to the creamed mixture and stir until well blended. Chill 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 375 F. Roll out dough 1/4 at a time to 1/8" thickness or slightly thicker on a lightly floured board. Cut with a cookie cutter and transfer to a greased (or non stick) cookie sheet.
Repeat with remaining dough. Before baking, decorate with raisins as you like.
Place in oven for 8 - 10 minutes.
Cool on a wire rack
Decorate with icing, m&m's, chocolate chips or any other items you wish.
There are a few great recipes on here for gingerbread men and women I mean lets not be sexist,haha.I love em too and I find these recipes easy to make.
http://www.recipezaar.com/recipes.php?q=...
Happy baking.x