Whole Wheat Gingerbread Men
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It may be that I’ve gone a little loopy with all of the recent Christmas preparations, but for some reason I got really hung up on what I should call these cookies. Are they Gingerbread Men? Or are they Gingerbread Boys? But then, I didn’t want to leave out the girls…so maybe some of them should be called Gingerbread Girls. Or maybe I just go with the politically correct name and call them Gingerbread People?
When did Christmas baking become so complicated? :)
Gingerbread Men/Boys/Girls/People/Cookies
1/2 cup melted butter
1/2 cup sucanat
1/2 cup molasses
1 egg
1 Tablespoon vinegar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
Sucanat Powdered Sugar Frosting
Cream butter, sucanat and molasses together. Add eggs, vinegar, baking powder, ginger, baking soda and spices. Stir in flour and mix well. Cover and chill dough in the refrigerator for 2 hours (more is fine).
Roll out dough on a well floured surface to about 1/8 inch thickness. Use a cookie cutter to cut into desired shape. Bake cookies about 1 inch apart on a cookie sheet in a 375° oven for 5-8 minutes.
If you don’t put your cookies 1 inch apart on the pan, you’ll end up with one cookie kicking another cookie in the head. I tell ya, I can’t even get my cookies to behave sometimes. A mother’s work is never done…
I recommend spreading Sucanat Powdered Sugar Frosting on the cookies. I had a little bit of Chocolate Fudge Frosting leftover in the fridge and used that for faces and buttons.
I figured they wouldn’t mind if I put chocolate on their faces. I know I would never mind if someone wanted to put chocolate on my face. ;)
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Conventional, white powdered sugar be gone. Welcome sucanat version!
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I have never had gingerbread men before since my mother never liked them but these look great!
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I might need to buy a gingerbread man cookie cutter, now!
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Mmmmmm!
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My kiddos and I are getting ready to make gingerbread cookies to leave on our gingerbread plate for Santa.
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You bring such simple and great recipes. I need to make a file folder just for Heavenly Homemaker recipes. ;-)
Thanks again.
Jasmine
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Totally cute!
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Mmmmmmmm gingerbread!
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Cute!!! I need some gingerbread now…
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These would be a health food when eaten with a glass of milk in my book, lol! Yum.
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How about boring ol’ “Gingerbread Cookies”? Then we don’t have to worry about leaving anyone out.
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My daughter has decided that this year we’ll be making gingerbread girls. Usually we make frosted sugar cookies, but these will be a nice change.
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I just ordered succanat from Azure so I can make some of your recipes!!
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They surely do look yummy!
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We just made these (without the icing) and they were adorable but were more of a cracker than a cookie. I’m not partial to things that are too sweet in general, but these tasted more of a whole wheat cracker than anything else. The flour had such a strong flavor that we couldn’t taste any of the spices, which was disappointing. These were, though, very cute and are nice if you are looking for a rather healthy cracker-type snack.
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just made these using a non gluten flour mix…DELICIOUS! Thinking next time to use flax meal instead of eggs for totally allergy free cookies. zOur daughter (3.5) totally enjoyed decorating them and now we have gifts for all her favorite people!
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also we used coconut oil instead of butter and upped the ginger just a wee bit to make sure flavor came through.
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how many does this make? I have a large family and usually have to double or triple but I thought I’d ask.
Katie
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Laura Reply:
December 3rd, 2012 at 10:45 pm
If I remember right, it makes about 18 big cookies. :)
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these would be good to make and then read the book about The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett
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