Gingerbread Boys Recipe

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These lightly spiced festive gingerbread fellows are great to munch on. And if I punch a hole in the cutout shapes before baking, I can use the sturdy cookies as tree ornaments, too. —Dore' Merrick Grabski, Utica, New York

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Gingerbread Boys Recipe

Prep: 15 min. + chilling Bake: 10 min./batch

Yield: 24 Servings

15 10 25

Ingredients

2/3 cup shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup molasses
1 egg
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon each ground cinnamon, ginger and cloves
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Confectioners' sugar icing, red-hot candies and miniature chocolate chips, optional

Directions

In a bowl, cream shortening and sugar. Add molasses and egg; mix well. Combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, salt and nutmeg; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Divide dough in half. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out each portion of dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with a 4-in. cookie cutter dipped in flour. Place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets.
Bake at 350° for 9-11 minutes or until edges are firm. Remove to wire racks to cool. Decorate as desired. Yield: about 2 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1 each) equals 144 calories, 6 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 9 mg cholesterol, 107 mg sodium, 21 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 2 g protein.

Originally published as Gingerbread Boys in Country Woman Christmas Annual 2001, p34