Easy gingerbread holiday cookies

Christmas gingerbread cookies

Even snacks and treats can be seasonal if you whip up a batch of our cute gingerbread Christmas cookies. Make your own cookie dough or use ready made.

Home-made cookie mix

Makes around 24 large cookies
Preheat stove to 350°F. In a bowl, mix together 2 cups flour, ½ cup sugar, ½ cup margarine or softened butter, ½ cup molasses, 1 egg, 1½ tsp ground cinnamon, 1 tsp ground ginger, 1 tsp ground cloves, ½ tsp ground nutmeg, 1 tsp baking powder, ½ tsp baking soda, ½ tsp salt. Cover and chill in refrigerator for one hour. Roll out dough on lightly floured surface, use cutters to form cookie shapes and bake for 8-10 minutes until lightly browned. Bake ready-made cookie dough as per packet instructions.

You’ll need…

Confectioners’ sugar, icing bags, food coloring (red, green, pink, brown), black icing pen, M&M’s, sprinkles, cookie cutters

Santa Claus

• Mix icing. Set aside a third and color red and a smaller portion to color pale pink.
• Dip top end of cookie into red icing.
• Use icing bag of pale pink icing to create Santa face in center of cookie.
• Use icing bag of white icing to pipe his beard and hair around his face.
• Allow to dry before piping on his mustache, with a dot of red icing to form his nose and two dabs of black icing pen for his eyes.
  

Jolly snowman

• Mix icing. Set aside small portions to color black, green and red.
• Cover cookie in white icing and allow to dry.
• Pipe on black icing at top of cookie to form Snowman’s hat (optional), eyes and smile.
• Pipe on green icing to form his scarf.
• Pipe on red icing to form his buttons (alternately, use M&Ms).
  

Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer

• Mix icing. Set aside half to color brown. Set aside small portions or remaining icing to color green and black.
• Cover cookie in brown-colored icing and allow to dry.
• Pipe on green icing to form his scarf.
• Pipe on black icing to form his eyes and mouth.
• Pipe on white or black icing to form antlers.
• Add M&M’s to form his eyes.

Candy cane

• Mix icing and set aside a portion to color red and a smaller portion to color green.
• Cover cookie in white icing and allow to dry.
• Pipe on stripes in red and green icing.

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