Gingerbread Man

Catch me if you can, I'm the gingerbread man. I lead the way to holiday fun!

Okay, okay... enough of that. But who doesn't love gingerbread men? They are an integral part of the holiday season. That alone should be excuse enough to make some for your own celebration. Follows are two easy recipes for making gingerbread men. One of the recipes is for making gingerbread men for human consumption and the other is to use as decoration (and is also edible should you get snowed in with 20 starving relatives and desperation sets in). Partake in the holiday fun and make your own gingerbread man today!

Step 1: Go get stuff

Pick one of the two ingredient lists to suit your needs. Also, don't forget to give the tools list a quick once over.

If you would like to make some nonstructural gingerbread for human consumption in the form of cookies, I highly recommend:

1/3 cup butter, softened
1 cup brown sugar
1-1/2 cups of molasses
2/3 cup of chilled water
7 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground allspice
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cloves

If you would like to make some structural gingerbread for ornaments, I can recommend the following recipe:

1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup molasses
2 eggs
4 cups all-purpose flour, divided
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

Frosting:
6 eggs
2 pounds confectioners' sugar

Tools:
Mr and Mrs Gingerbread Man Cookie Cutters
Electric mixer
Icing tips
Ziplock bags

Comments

[MariahWeezy123]

Looks awesome.

[Jawa888]

 MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Gingerbread man

[atombomb1945]

Don't forget the gumdrop buttons.

Seriously, I have been looking for a gingerbread cookie recipe for the last week and I couldn't find anything that did not require "Fancy" ingredients.  Thank you.