Recipe - Gingerbread Boy Cookies

One fourth cup Butter
One half cup White or brown sugar
One half cup Dark molasses
3 One half cup Flour
1 teaspoon Baking soda
One fourth teaspoon Ground cloves
One half teaspoon Cinnamon
2 teaspoon Ginger
One half teaspoon Salt
One fourth cup Water; up to 1/3

FOR DECORATION
Raisins
Candied fruit or red hots
One half cup Powdered sugar
Food coloring
Gingerbread boy cookie
cutter

Makes 8 cookies. 350 degree oven.

Cream butter, sugar, and molasses together. Add dry ingredients. Add water
as necessary. Its easiest to mix with your hands.

Roll out the dough to 1/4" thickness. Cut out gingerbread boys with cookie
cutter, Roll scraps back into dough to make more cutouts. Make faces and
buttons with the raisins. candied fruit, or red hots.

Bake on greased cookie sheet for 810 minutes. Let cool.

To further decorate your gingerbread boys, mix the powdered sugar with a
few drops of water and food coloring. Dip a toothpick or small paintbrush
into the sugar mixture and draw on hair and clothes.

Recipe by: The Gingerbread Boy, written and illus. by Richard Egielsk

Posted to MCRecipe Digest by Kathleen schuller@ix.netcom.com on Apr 25,
1998