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.
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Serves:
Makes about 8 dozen
Prep:
10 Min
Cook:
10 Min
Method:
Bake
Ingredients
- 3/4 c
- brown sugar, packed
- 1/4 c
- honey
- 3/4 c
- dark molasses
- 1 large
- egg
- 3 c
- all purpose flour
- 1/2 c
- chopped almonds
- 1 1/4 tsp
- each of ground cinnamon and nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp
- each ground cloves and allspice
- 1/2 tsp
- baking soda
- 1/2 c
- mixed candied fruit, ground
- 1 c
- oleo (margarine or butter or crisco)
- 5 large
- egg yolks
- 1 3/4 c
- granulated sugar
- 2 tsp
- vanilla
- 5 c
- all purpose flour
- 1 tsp
- each of baking powder, salt and baking soda
- 2 tsp
- nutmeg
- 1 c
- dairy sour cream
ROLLED LEBKUCHEN:
GERMAN SOUR CREAM COOKIES:
How to Make Gingerbread Santa
- 1GERMAN 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. - 2Chill 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.
- 3Place cutouts on greased baking sheets- sprinkle with sugar if desired.
Bake in 350^ for 10-12 minutes just until bottom is lightly browned. - 4Remove 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. - 5Dream 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. - 6ROLLED 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.
