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Recipe JIF® Gingerbread People (Cookie)
Home Cooking Recipes
Required Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup CRISCO® Butter Flavor All-Vegetable Shortening
- 1/2 cup JIF® Creamy Peanut Butter
- 1/2 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
- 1/3 cup molasses
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 large eggs (at room temperature)
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon cloves
- CRISCO® Cooking Spray
Preparing/Cooking:
- Combine CRISCO® Butter Flavor All-Vegetable Shortening, JIF® Creamy Peanut Butter and sugar in a large bowl.
- Beat at medium speed with an electric mixer until well blended and smooth.
- Beat in the molasses, vanilla extract and egg until well blended.
- Combine the flour, ginger, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, cloves and nutmeg in a bowl, mix well.
- Stir into the creamed mixture until well blended.
- Cover and refrigerate 4-8 hours.
- Heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Lightly spray cookie sheets with CRISCO® Cooking Spray.
- Work with about 1/3 of dough at a time, keeping the rest refrigerated.
- Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to about 1/4 inch thick.
- Cut out the gingerbread people using floured cookie cutters of your choice.
- Place the cookies on the prepared cookie sheets.
- Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, until firm to the touch and slightly darker around the edges.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool on the cookie sheets about 3 to 4 minutes.
- Place the cookies on a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
- Decorate using icing, gum drops, raisins, silver balls for buttons etc.
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