This is one of my favorite holiday recipes. It’s not a crisp gingerbread like that we would use for making houses. It’s a soft cookie. We have made gingerbread ninjas and wookies, as well as the more traditional shape.
Soft Gingebread People
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter (softened)
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3/4 cup molasses
- 3/4 cup buttermilk or sour milk
- 1 inch chunk of fresh ginger
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 5 cups flour
Directions
- Cream together butter, sugar and eggs.
- Mix molasses and buttermilk in slowly.
- I use my garlic press to just press the juice from the ginger into this mixture.
- Sift together the dry ingredients and add them to the mixture.
- The dough is not very stiff and has to be put in the refrigerator for at least an hour. Overnight is better.
- Roll out the cookie to about 1/2 inch thick and cut out.
- You can frost them if you like with a buttercream frosting, red hots, and gum drops.
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