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My son has been asking to make these for weeks, so we finally did yesterday. This recipe makes a very dense cookie with just the right amount of spice. And of course the house smelled great while we baked!

Gingerbread People
(Betty Crocker Cookbook)

1 cup packed brown sugar
1/3 cup shortening
1 ½ cups dark molasses
2/3 cup cold water
7 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp ground ginger
½ tsp salt
1 tsp ground allspice
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp ground cinnamon

Mix brown sugar, shortening, molasses and water. Stir in remaining ingredients. Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours.

Heat oven to 350 degrees (F). Grease cookie sheet lightly. Roll about ¼ of the dough ¼ inch thick on floured board. Cut with floured gingerbread cutter or other favorite cutter. Place about 2 inches apart on cookie sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until no indentation remains when touched; cool. Decorate with colored frosting, colored sugar and candies if desired. Makes about 2 ½ dozen 2 ½-inch cookies; 185 calories per cookie.

( If you'd like a soft molasses cookie, I recommend my grandmother's molasses cookie recipe. Man, that recipe gets a lot of Google hits. I don't think it would occur to me to search on "grandma's molasses cookies," but hey, you get a great recipe when you do!)

 

Comments

[kristi]

Yum! Looks delicious.
Merry Christmas to you, the hubs, and that adorable little boy!

[Bou]

Yay! Thank you. I took down the recipe...

I'm posting tonight!