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Recipe: Gingerbread People




Gingerbread cookies are a fun family activity during the holiday season. All you need to get started are some gingerbread people cookie cutters and your imagination. You can make your own frosting. I like to buy different colored frosting in tubes that come with the different tips ready to attach and frost. It's a lot less work and mess, and you can use them over and over again. Use a variety of candies to decorate, like raisins, red hots, gum drops, etc. Mine are nothing fancy, but still cute and fun to make.


Ingredients:
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. shortening
1 egg
1/2 c. light molasses
2 1/4 c. flour
4 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. all spice



How to make this recipe:
Cream sugar and shortening. Add egg and molasses; blend. Mix in dry
ingredients.

Chill dough for one hour. Roll out dough to 1/8 in. thickness. Cut into desired shapes. Bake at 350 degrees F for eight to nine minutes.

Notes: Copyright 2002. Rachel Paxton is a freelance writer and mom who is the
author of What's for Dinner?, an e-cookbook containing more than 250 quick and easy dinner ideas. For recipes, tips to organize your home, home
decorating, crafts, and frugal family fun, visit Creative Homemaking at http://www.creativehomemaking.com.

Recipe from: Rachel Paxton - http://www.creativehomemaking.com.





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