Recipe: Tasty Gingerbread Reindeer Cookies

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Gingerbread Reindeer Cookies. Fresh baked, hand-made, individually decorated real American cookies. A party with a tray of cookies is always better Vergelijk de prijzen voordat je koopt. Gather scraps, and reroll as desired.

Gingerbread Reindeer Cookies Instructions Sift together the flour, baking powder, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, and cinnamon. Beat together shortening, molasses, water, egg, brown sugar and vanilla until blended. Slowly stir in the dry mixture until completely absorbed. You can have Gingerbread Reindeer Cookies using 4 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Gingerbread Reindeer Cookies

  1. Prepare 1 of Your favorite gingerbread cut-out cookie recipe..
  2. It's 1 of Frosting either your favorite recipe, or store bought. In the colors White, Green, Black and Red(optional).
  3. It's 1 of Red Sprinkles/Jimmies (just a few).
  4. Prepare 1 of Red M&M's for nose.

Use the head and torso area for the reindeer's face, gingerbread arms for the reindeer's ears, and the gingerbread legs for the reindeer's antlers. Use cookie icing to attach eyeballs onto reindeer faces. Use your creativity and imagination to put your own spin on the reindeers and have fun! Back to all recipes Making these Gingerbread Reindeer is extremely easy, but a smidge labor-intensive.

Gingerbread Reindeer Cookies step by step

  1. Make your cookies as directed on the recipe. When done let fully cool..
  2. Place frosting in a cake decorating bag and use a round tip for the reindeer, face, and antlers. Using a little of the white frosting as "glue to place the M&M for the nose..
  3. Then using a leaf tip..(I use #67)..pipe on the leaves. (If you don't have a leaf tip you can always cut a very small upside down v shape in a corner of a plastic Ziploc bag).
  4. Then place 2 jimmies for the holly on the leaves. IF this is too hard then use the red frosting instead and do 3 small dots to represent berries. (I have done this both ways.).
  5. Be creative with the faces and have fun! :) When the frosting hardens then you can Store them in a air tight container. Enjoy..

It's a matter of blending spices like ground ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, allspice, cardamom, salt, and baking soda into all-purpose flour. That's how we're starting, all in a large mixing bowl. Whisk these together until they're all blended. Trust me, don't rush this step, you don't want sticky dough. Using a standard size gingerbread man cut out, do your magic.