Last night was my homegroup's annual christmas party, complete with chocolate fondue, a $0 budget white elephant gift exchange (so impressed with the creativity of some of those gifts!), and some FANtastic christmas sweaters. In preparation for the party, and in celebration of completeing my third semester here at A&M I decided it was the perfect night to unleash that baking monster I was speaking of before. So, with the help of my beautiful roommate, Devin, and my dear friend, Jordan, we made some great looking gingerbread people if I do say so myself (and I do). The dough took me about 15 minutes to make, but keep in mind it needs to be chilled for four hours (or two, if you are running behind...ahem) in order to be easy to handle.
1/4 cup butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 egg
1 cup molasses
3 cups flour (you may add more or less, depending on how moist your dough is)
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp ginger..or more if your like me and really like spicy holiday cookies
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp allspice
1/4 tsp cloves
Preheat oven to 350. Beat butter, sugar, and applesauce in bowl until smooth. Add egg and molasses, mix. In another bowl mix all the other ingredients. Add flour mixture slowly to the moist ingredients until all combined. You may need to knead the dough a little to get all the flour incorporated. Cover, and chill for atleast 2 hours!
Roll dough to pretty much any thickness you want. Most recipes say "1/4" or "1/8" of an inch. But it honestly depends on your preference. If you want chewier cookies, roll them thicker. If you want them more like gingersnaps, roll them thinner. Just keep an eye on them in the oven if you roll them thinner so they do not burn. Cut them with cutter or flatten them into rounds and bake for about 10 minutes.
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