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Soft Gingerbread Cookies

My great Ouma Babs made the best soft and chewy gingerbread cookies. Gingerbread cookies are the best Christmas treat and this is one of the easiest cookie receipes and can be baked the same day as you make the dough.
Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Cool5 minutes
Total Time45 minutes
Course: Baking, Christmas Baking, Cookies
Keyword: Baking, Cookies, Ginger
Servings: 4 dozen

Equipment

  • Mixing bowls
  • Measuring spoons
  • Food scale (optional)
  • Electric mixer
  • Cookie cutters
  • Baking sheets
  • Cooling racks

Ingredients

  • 2.5 kg Flour
  • 1 kg Dark Brown Sugar
  • 1 tbsp All Spice Fine
  • 1 tbsp Cinnamon Fine
  • 1 tsp Nutmeg Fine
  • 1 tsp Cloves Fine
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 1-2 tsp Orange/Clementine Peel Grated
  • 500 g Butter
  • 3 Eggs
  • 3 cups Milk
  • 4 tsp Baking Soda

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F or 180 degrees C
  • Mix dry ingredients together in a large bowl
  • Grate orange or clementine rind and add to dry ingredients
  • Mix butter into dry mix with your fingers, rubbing the dry mix and butter between your fingers
  • In a separate bowl, mix milk and eggs
  • Add milk and eggs to dry ingredients
  • Mix dough together with your hands
  • The dough will become tough to mix, add a little more milk if necessary (not too much)
  • Roll dough out onto a floured surface until about 1/2 inch thick (or 1/4 inch thick for thinner cookies)
  • Press cookies with shapes, and add them to a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper
  • Bake cookies in the oven for 20 minutes
  • Cool cookies on a cooling rack for 5 minutes