HONEY-GINGERBREAD COOKIES
These gingerbread cookies include a generous amount of honey, which gives them a pale golden color and a mildly sweet flavor. If you are making the Gingerbread Town-Square Cake, you can use this template to trace and cut out the different townhouse shapes.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes Cookie Recipes
Yield Makes about 2 dozen town houses, 4 dozen deer or trees, or 6 dozen men
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, and spices in a medium bowl.
- Beat butter and sugar with a mixer on medium-high speed until fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in honey and molasses. Reduce speed to low. Gradually add flour mixture, and beat until just combined. Divide dough into 3 portions, and wrap each in plastic. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. On a generously floured piece of parchment, roll dough to a scant 1/4 inch thick. Brush off excess flour. Slide dough and parchment onto a baking sheet, and freeze for 15 minutes.
- Cut out desired shapes. Transfer to parchment-lined baking sheets, and freeze for 15 minutes.
- Bake cookies for 6 minutes. Remove sheets from oven, and tap them firmly on counter to flatten cookies. Return to oven, rotating sheets, and bake until crisp but not darkened, 6 to 8 minutes more. Let cool on sheets on wire racks.
- Spoon icing into a pastry bag fitted with a very small plain round tip (such as Ateco #0 or #1). Pipe designs on cookies. Let cookies stand at room temperature until set, at least 2 hours (preferably overnight).
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Juan Cristino
cristinojuan24@gmail.comThese cookies are the perfect holiday treat.
Manow Kofii
k15@gmail.comI love the chewy texture of these cookies. They're so addicting!
Ahmad Shahid
s@gmail.comThese cookies are delicious! I will definitely be making them again.
Farah Laplante
f-l@aol.comI've made these cookies several times now and they always turn out great. I highly recommend them.
Jiten Baniya
b.j@yahoo.comThese cookies are a great way to get kids involved in the kitchen.
Christine Hardie
hc15@aol.comI love the way these cookies look. They're so festive and perfect for the holidays.
Marlon Sampson
s_m60@gmail.comThese cookies are the perfect size for a snack or dessert.
David Rodrigues
rodrigues_d9@gmail.comI love the way these cookies smell while they're baking. They make my whole house smell like Christmas.
Roy Barker
barker@gmail.comThese cookies are a great way to use up leftover molasses.
Nichol Avino
n.avino@hotmail.co.ukI'm not a very experienced baker, but these cookies turned out perfectly. They're so beautiful and delicious.
Lovely Vishnu
vishnu.lovely@yahoo.comThese cookies are so easy to make. I love that I can use my stand mixer to do most of the work.
Nipisha Tapaungai
nipisha73@aol.comI've never been a big fan of gingerbread cookies, but these are delicious. The honey adds a nice sweetness to them.
Sohag ff
f_sohag@gmail.comThese cookies are the perfect balance of sweet and spicy. I love the molasses flavor.
Arslan Memon
arslanmemon52@gmail.comI love the chewy texture of these cookies. They're so addicting!
ms Shyamoli
ms.s42@yahoo.comThese cookies are amazing! They're the perfect holiday treat.
Sheila Rosario
sheila@gmail.comI've made these cookies several times now and they always turn out great. They're so easy to make and they're always a hit with my family and friends.
Maruf Mahmud
maruf-m54@yahoo.comThese cookies were delicious! I made them for a Christmas party and they were a hit. They were soft and chewy, with the perfect amount of sweetness. The gingerbread flavor was perfect, not too spicy or too bland.