Gingerbread Man

Madeline made a gingerbread man. The recipe is at the bottom. We are all pretty sick of sweets, but it was pretty good. It was actually not too unhealthy except for the icing. We picked all of the candy off and threw it away! :>)

This is the apron I made for Madeline for Christmas.

Decorating the "Man".

Her finished project!

Malachi snagging a bite!

Matthew and Malachi still going strong! (Looking a little full!)

Old-Fashioned Gingerbread
1/2 c. butter
1/2 c. brown sugar
1/2 c. molasses
3 1/2 c. all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. cloves
1/3 c. water

Directions-Preheat oven to 375. Cream butter and sugar thoroughly with electric mixer. Beat in molasses. Blend all dry ingredients. Alternately add blended dry ingredients and water to the butter sugar mixture. Dough will become stiff, so that last dry addition may need to be blended in by hand. Work dough until it is smooth in consistency. If dough sticks to your hands, lightly dust them with flour. Careful though, too much flour makes dough dry and hard. When dough is easy to work, you're ready to roll it out and make gingerbread men. If your not going to make your gingerbread men right away, wrap dough in plastic and refrigerate. Refrigerated dough will keep for a week, but be sure to remove it 3 hours prior to rolling so it softens and is workable. Roll out dough 1/4 inch thick and cut out gingerbread men. Bake for 8-10 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely on cooling racks.


**We used fresh ground whole wheat and used the whole recipe in a gingerbread man cake pan instead of cutting out small cookies. We cooked it about 20 minutes.