Monday, December 5, 2016

How To Make Gingerbread Cookies — Baking Lessons from The Kitchn


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Gingerbread is the scent of the season. This richly spiced cookie, teeming with ginger, cloves, and cinnamon, perfumes your house from the moment you begin mixing the dough to the first tray that’s pulled out of the oven. But gingerbread cookies can be a little finicky. With the wrong recipe or a few missteps they can become hard or, worse, bland! We’re not having that, so we created a gingerbread cookie recipe that is not only incredibly flavorful, but also easy to handle.

Starting with a cherished family recipe, a few wise words from a gingerbread expert, and a few trays of cookies later, we ended up with the recipe we’re sharing here. So ready your icing and round up the gum drops because this is the gingerbread cookie recipe to carry you through the holiday season.

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