Gingerbread Cookies
also called gingerbread men · gingerbread cutouts · gingerbread biscuits
- Bakery
- serves 36
- about 2 hours
- Cookies
Three ways to read this recipe
The table
| Heat the oven to 350°F (175°C) and line two baking sheets with parchment | |||||
| 3/4 cup(170 g; softened)unsalted butter | cream | beat in | stir | wrap and chill for 1 hour | roll 1/4 in thick, cut out, bake 350°F (175°C) 10 min |
| 3/4 cup(165 g)dark brown sugar | |||||
| 2/3 cup(200 g)molasses | |||||
| 1 large(50 g)egg | |||||
| 1 tsp(5 mL)vanilla extract | |||||
| 3 1/2 cups(440 g)all-purpose flour | whisk | ||||
| 1 Tbs(6 g)ground ginger | |||||
| 2 tsp(5 g)ground cinnamon | |||||
| 1/2 tsp(1 g)ground cloves | |||||
| 1 tsp(6 g)baking soda | |||||
| 1/2 tsp(3 g)table salt | |||||
What to lay out
Everything the recipe asks for, sitting under the step that eats it. Tick each one as you measure it.14 things to get out.
Pans and tools
Before anything else
2cream
3beat in
goes in with what step 2 made
4whisk
Cooking it
Tap a step when it is done; the next one lights up.
The clock
- Start to finish
- at least 1 hr 10 mintwo waits that overlap count once
- Needs you
- none givenof the steps that give a time
4 of the 6 steps never say how long they take, so both numbers are floors. The recipe itself says 2 hr.
cream
not timedfrom the start
whisk
not timedfrom the start
beat in
not timedfrom the start
stir
not timedfrom the start
wrap and chill for 1 hour
1 hrwalk away(read off the step)from the start
roll 1/4 in thick, cut out, bake 350°F (175°C) 10 min
10 minwalk away(read off the step)1 hr in
- you can walk away
- never timed
Drawn to scale, so a long wait really does take up the room it takes. The shortest stretches keep a sliver so they stay visible; their times are printed beside them. The minutes are always the recipe’s own; a dashed edge means we worked out from the step whether you have to be there, and a dotted one means nothing was said, so we assumed you are standing over it.
You'll need baking sheets · oven
See how it is written
>> title: Gingerbread Cookies
>> category: Cookies
>> tags: ginger, molasses, spice, christmas, oven
>> counters: Bakery
>> aka: gingerbread men, gingerbread cutouts, gingerbread biscuits
>> servings: 36
>> time: 2 hours
>> step.3: beat in
>> step.7: roll 1/4 in thick, cut out, bake 350°F (175°C) 10 min
Heat the #oven{} to 350°F (175°C) and line two #baking sheets{} with parchment.
Cream @unsalted butter{3/4%cup}(170 g; softened) with @dark brown sugar{3/4%cup}(165 g).
Beat @molasses{2/3%cup}(200 g), @egg{1%large}(50 g), and @vanilla extract{1%tsp}(5 mL) into @&(~1)creamed butter{}.
Whisk @all-purpose flour{3 1/2%cup}(440 g), @ground ginger{1%Tbs}(6 g), @ground cinnamon{2%tsp}(5 g), @ground cloves{1/2%tsp}(1 g), @baking soda{1%tsp}(6 g), and @table salt{1/2%tsp}(3 g).
Stir @&(~1)dry ingredients{} into @&(~2)batter{}.
Wrap @&(~1)dough{} and chill for ~{1%hour}.
Roll @&(~1)dough{} 1/4 in thick, cut out shapes, and bake at 350°F for ~{10%min}.