Gingerbread Santa
By
Pat Duran
@kitchenChatter
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Here is an easy way to decorate your Lebkuchen or Molasses cookies for the holiday. Create Santa's or Snowmen from the Gingerbread Boy cookie cutter. Use you favorite cut-out cookie recipe or the one here and get a head start on you cookie baking.
Recipes from a good friend and neighbor in Mi.,Grandma Kross.
Recipes from a good friend and neighbor in Mi.,Grandma Kross.
Rating:
★★★★★ 1 vote5
Comments:
Serves:
Makes about 8 dozen
Prep:
10 Min
Cook:
10 Min
Method:
Bake
Ingredients
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ROLLED LEBKUCHEN:
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3/4 cbrown sugar, packed
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1/4 choney
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3/4 cdark molasses
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1 largeegg
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3 call purpose flour
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1/2 cchopped almonds
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1 1/4 tspeach of ground cinnamon and nutmeg
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1/2 tspeach ground cloves and allspice
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1/2 tspbaking soda
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1/2 cmixed candied fruit, ground
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GERMAN SOUR CREAM COOKIES:
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1 coleo (margarine or butter or crisco)
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5 largeegg yolks
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1 3/4 cgranulated sugar
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2 tspvanilla
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5 call purpose flour
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1 tspeach of baking powder, salt and baking soda
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2 tspnutmeg
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1 cdairy sour cream
How to Make Gingerbread Santa
- GERMAN SOUR CREAM COOKIES:
Combine oleo, egg yolks, sugar and vanilla thoroughly in a large mixing bowl. Combine the sour cream and baking soda. Stir in all dry ingredients, alternately with the sour cream mixture. - Chill dough for 15 minutes. Roll a small portion of dough on a lightly floured board. Cut with your Santa or Gingerbread boy cutter or other festive Christmas cookie cutters. Repeat with remaining dough.
- Place cutouts on greased baking sheets- sprinkle with sugar if desired.
Bake in 350^ for 10-12 minutes just until bottom is lightly browned. - Remove cookies from baking sheet immediately to cool on brown paper or newspaper.
Decorate with decorator icing or just frost with this recipe below, and sprinkle with colored sugars, etc. - Dream Whip Frosting-from 1956
1 envelope Dream Whip powdered mix
1/2 cup very cold milk
1 pound powdered sugar(4 cups)
3 Tablespoons butter,melted
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 Tablespoons milk -add if mixture is too thick
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Beat together in mixer bowl until light and fluffy. - ROLLED LEBKUCHEN:
Beat eggs and brown sugar until fluffy.Stir in honey and molasses. Add dry ingredients. Mix well. Stir in fruit and nuts. Chill dough overnight.
Roll dough to 1/4" thick. Cut with coolie cutter Gingerbread Man cutter or other cutters. Bake on greased cookie sheets for 12 minutes at 350^. Cool slightly before removing from baking sheets. Frost as you desire.May frost while warm and decorate top with red candied cherry or almond half.
