Easy Homemade Gingerbread Cookies

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Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup molasses
  • 1 tbsp apple cider
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 5 cups flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp ground ginger
  • 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp ground allspice
  • 1/2 tsp ground cloves
  • 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

Directions

  1. Using a stand mixer, beat butter and sugar together.
  2. Slowly add in the egg, molasses, vinegar, and vanilla and beat on low speed til fully combined.
  3. In a separate bowl mix the dry ingredients and spices together.
  4. Add the dry mix to the molasses mix and beat on low speed until combined into a soft cookie dough.
  5. Cover the dough and chill in the fridge for at least 3 hours and up to overnight.
  6. Once ready to bake, preheat oven to 350.
  7. Divide the dough in half and roll out each half to about 1/4 inch thickness on a lightly floured surface
  8. Cut out cookies and place on lined baking sheets about 1 inch apart
  9. Bake for 8-14 minutes depending on the size of the cookies you cut out. They should spring back when you slightly touch their surface. Be sure not to overbake though, as cookies will become chewy & tough.
  10. Let cookies cool completely before decorating
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Published by Kris Moore

I’m Kris 🙋🏻‍♀️ I’m a boho hippie beach mom just trying to raise a family in New England. I have a perfect 3 year old lil boy with autism, a beautiful high maintenance diva baby girl, & 2 crazy rescue dogs and we live on a lake in the woods on the seacoast of New Hampshire just outside Boston.⁣ ⁣ I’m super Italian & pretty much check off every Boston Italian stereotype and lemme tell ya we are definitely our own lil cultural world 😋 ⁣ I have a bachelor’s degree in psych that I don’t use at all lol and I used to be a medical/surgical assistant and worked in both orthopedic trauma as well as pediatrics. I f**kin LOVED my job & if the apocalypse ever hits I have the medical knowledge to survive 🤪⁣ ⁣ I gained & subsequently lost 100 pounds post thyroid surgery, 60 pounds with baby # 1, and 30 pounds with baby # 2. I have been every body size there is and they are all beautiful!⁣ ⁣ I don’t wear a lot of makeup, I don’t know how to curl my hair, I’m obsessed with yoga & plants, I hate big cities, I mostly rock t-shirts & flip flops, I have a mouth like a sailor, I’m fluent in sarcasm, I’m loud & full of opinions, and I drink a lot of wine 😋 Some people say I’m a lot... but would you wanna live life only being a little??⁣ ⁣ I’ve walked a lot of paths in life and have been through some serious shit. So I will never judge you for where you are on your path or how you’re walking it. You do you boys & girls (and everyone in between)! Let yo freak flag fly! All are welcome & supported in my corner of the Internet 😉⁣ ⁣

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