Honey Gingerbread
Christmas spices blend with honey to make this delicate gingerbread.
Servings: 2 dozen
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons powdered ginger
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 pound butter, cut into small pieces
- 1/2 cup honey
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift the sugar, flour, soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg together in a mixing bowl (or whisk together if you don't have a sifter).
- Using a pastry blender or your finger tips, mix the butter into the dry ingredients until mixture until blended together.
- Add the honey and stir with spoon or mixer until all ingredients are blended together.
- Gather up dough into a ball and divide in half. Take half of the dough and press together and flatten slightly into a rectangle. Place dough between two pieces of parchment paper and roll out about 1/8" thick. Cut out with gingerbread people or houses.
- Place cut out cookies on a cookie sheet, lined with parchment paper or silicone mat, and bake 12-15 at 350 degrees.
- Remove from oven, and cool on baking sheet 1-2 minutes, then continue cooling on a cooling rack.