These little guys were so much fun to make. As we were making gingerbread cookies a couple of weeks ago, we started playing with the little figures we had baked. We were pretending that the gingerbread men were being dunked in a cup of hot chocolate. This recipe is part of our 12 days of Christmas cookies advent calendar - be sure to check out all the recipes.
Now, would a gingerbread person want to be dunked? NO WAY! So, we decided to bake up a batch of gingerbread men who are trying to get out of the mug and a few that have lost the battle to getaway. We also made some leaping reindeers...jumping out of the hot chocolate.
We started off making a batch of my favourite gingerbread recipe...
Gingerbread Men Cookies on Edge of Cup
Whisk together the flour, spices, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl and set aside. Now, use an electric mixer to beat the butter and brown sugar together until smooth. Add in the molasses and egg. Now, with the mixer on low, add the bowl of dry ingredients. Mix until the dough forms. Place the dough on a sheet of floured plastic wrap and use your hands to pat it into an 8-inch square. Wrap it up well and chill the dough until it is firm, 1 to 2 hours.
Once the dough has chilled we rolled the dough to ⅛" thick and used small gingerbread men and reindeer cookie cutters. My girls love cutting out cookies. Once the cookies were cut out, I used a very sharp knife to cut out a small rectangle (about ⅛" wide) from each gingerbread man and reindeer. Think about how you want the gingerbread to sit on the rim of the cup. To make the gingerbread man tumble, cut the rectangle between the shoulder and ear of the little man. To make the little guy tip on his side, cut the rectangle from the side. We cut all the reindeer the same, slanted and through the belly (which sounds harsh as I type it...but remember this is a cookie).
Bake the cookies, on a parchment-lined baking sheet, at 350°C for 8 minutes.
Once the cookies are baked and chilled it is time to have some fun. We decided not to decorate the cookies, we liked how they looked without icing. Make a couple of cups of hot chocolate and some whipped cream, add some sprinkles and place your cookies on the rim of the mug.
Aren't these guys so cute?! They make a fun gift to give or gobble them all up yourself!
Gingerbread Men Cookies on Edge of Cup
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
- ⅓ cup packed dark-brown sugar
- ⅓ cup unsulphured molasses
- 1 large egg
Instructions
- Whisk together the flour, spices, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl and set aside.
- Now, use an electric mixer to beat the butter and brown sugar together until smooth.
- Add in the molasses and egg. Now, with the mixer on low, add the bowl of dry ingredients. Mix until the dough forms.
- Place the dough on a sheet of floured plastic wrap and use your hands to pat it into an 8-inch square. Wrap it up well and chill the dough until it is firm, 1 to 2 hours.
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