Ingredients

The following ingredients have 4 Servings
  • 3/4 c Butter (softened)
  • 1 c Light brown sugar (packed)
  • 1 Egg
  • 3/4 c Molasses
  • 4 c All-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp Baking soda
  • 3 tsp Ground ginger
  • 2 tsp Ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp Ground cloves
  • ½ tsp Allspice
  • 1/4 tsp Salt
  • 1 tbsp Meringue Powder
  • 1 ½ c Powdered Sugar
  • 1 ½ tbsp Water
  • ¼ tsp Vanilla Extract

Instruction

  • In the bowl of your mixer add butter and sugar. Cream together until fluffy.
  • Add molasses and egg to the butter mixture and continue mixing until molasses is fully incorporated.
  • In a small bowl whisk together flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and salt.
  • Add the dry ingredients to the mixing bowl 1 cup at a time until the dough comes together and the flour is fully mixed in.
  • Remove dough from the mixer, cut in half, and pat into two disks. Wrap each disk in plastic wrap and chill for 1 hour.
  • Right before dough has finished chilling preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  • After an hour remove dough from the refrigerator and roll out to ¼” thickness.
  • Using your cookies cutters cut out your cookies. Place each cut out on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Press dough scraps back together and roll out again until all of the dough is used.
  • Bake for 8-10 minutes. Or until the edges of your cookies just start to darken.
  • Let cookies cool on a cooling rack.
  • While cookies cool make the royal icing by mixing all of the ingredients in a bowl and whisking until the icing is stiff. You can add water one tablespoon at a time (it won’t take much!) if you would like to thin the icing down for pouring rather than piping.
  • Decorate cookies, let icing firm up and enjoy!