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Butterscotch Gingerbread Men Recipe

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The addition of butterscotch pudding makes these a little different than most gingerbread cutout recipes. The recipe comes from my mother-in-law's files.

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Butterscotch Gingerbread Men Recipe

Prep: 20 min. + chilling Bake: 10 min. + cooling

Yield: 18 Servings

20 10 30

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 package (3.4 ounces) instant butterscotch pudding mix
1 egg
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1-1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
FROSTING:
2 cups confectioners' sugar
3 tablespoons milk

Directions

In a small bowl, cream the butter, brown sugar and pudding mix until light and fluffy. Beat in egg. Combine the flour, ginger, baking soda and cinnamon; gradually add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with a 5-in. gingerbread man cutter. Place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes or until edges are golden. Remove to wire racks to cool.
In another small bowl, combine confectioners' sugar and milk until smooth. Decorate cookies with frosting as desired. Yield: 1-1/2 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1 each) equals 183 calories, 6 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 26 mg cholesterol, 177 mg sodium, 32 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 2 g protein.

Originally published as Butterscotch Gingerbread Men in Best of Country Cookies , p47

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Reviewed on Dec. 17, 2009 by saralf320

We added milk to make the dough a little easier to work with. We didn't refrigerate it overnight just stuck it in the freezer for about 10-15 minutes. It was still a little sticky to cut out. The cookies were delicious just hard to cut out with cookie cutters.

Reviewed on Dec. 31, 2008 by lwinters

I only cooled about 15 minutes because we were in a hurry. Dough was pretty soft but gently workable.We only used a round cookie cutter. Flavor of these cookies was terrific!

Reviewed on Nov. 29, 2008 by momofboyandgirl

I made the dough for this recipe and refrigerated it over night. The dough was crumbly and would not roll out so I ended up tossing it. I'm disappoinated as this recipe sounds yummy. Any ideas on how to get the dough to stick together so it will roll out?