Gingerbread Cookies

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Staff writer Roxanne Roberts, a self-described gingerbread junkie, has been decorating cookies for 2 decades -- "one of those ephemeral but time-consuming pursuits that goes into overdrive during the vacation season." She favors gingerbread for her cooky canvas, but shortbread oregon food cookies besides enactment well. If you spell with 1 of those, she says, conscionable marque definite your look doesn't person a batch of baking soda oregon baking powder, which would origin the cookies to suffer their shape.

Top these cookies with Royal Icing. Icing is champion utilized fresh, but it tin beryllium covered with integrative wrapper and refrigerated for up to a week. If the icing separates, bushed it lightly.

Adapted from Roxanne Roberts' mother. Roxanne has tweaked it implicit the years; for instance, present that Crisco makes butter-flavored shortening, she uses that.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 5 dozen tiny cookies oregon 20 ample cookies

For the cookies

5 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 spoon baking powder
1 spoon salt
2 teaspoons crushed ginger
2 teaspoons crushed cloves
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 cupful butter-flavored rootlike shortening
1 cupful sugar
1 cupful acheronian molasses
2 ample eggs

For the royal icing

1 lb confectioners' sweetener (about 4 cups), sifted
1/4 cupful meringue powder
1/2 cupful lukewarm water
1 spoon orangish extract
Gel oregon paste nutrient coloring (available astatine trade stores oregon baking proviso stores)

Nutritional Facts

Per cooky (with icing)

Calories
108
Fat
4 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
18 g
Sodium
77 mg
Cholesterol
7 mg
Protein
1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from Roxanne Roberts' mother. Roxanne has tweaked it implicit the years; for instance, present that Crisco makes butter-flavored shortening, she uses that.

Tested by Roxanne Roberts.

Published March 11, 2026