Sunday, November 21, 2010

Day 25 - No Roll Pumpkin Gingerbread Men

                      Easy-No Roll
             Pumpkin Gingerbread Men


   I really wanted to make 
pumpkin gingerbread men last
night for a fun treat for the kids,
but the thought of cleaning up 
another pumpkin mess made me
want to shoot myself!! And after 
finding pumpkin on my bathroom 
wall last night, I decided to 
give everyone a break...no roll 
pumpkin gingerbread men!!!!
   It was one of my favorite holiday
memories as a child...baking and
decorating gingerbread with my
Mom. Who knows what those silver
almost, inedibly hard, round balls
were that we used for buttons, but
the memory is still clearly one of
my high points!! Thanks Mom!!


3 cups all-purpose flour
   (may use self-rising flour if you
   want taller, cake-like cookies)
1 cup Pumpkin (ok, you can use
   the canned for this one!)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 Tbsp ground cinnamon
1 Tbsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cloves
3/4 tsp baking soda
1 stick (8 Tbsp) butter 
1/2 cup unsulphured molasses
1 egg
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Use baking pan like this
picture of Wilton's.


Mix flour, cinnamon, ginger, salt, cloves, and baking soda in large mixing bowl. Cream sugar and
butter together with mixer in separate bowl. Using hand mixer, slowly add molasses, pumpkin and egg. Mix well.
Stir butter mixture into flour mixture
and mix well. Beat with hand mixer
on medium about 10 seconds.
Fill pre-greased pans 3/4 full and
bake at 350 degrees F for 8-12 
minutes. Do not overcook, they
should be soft!!! Remove from
pan after 8 minutes. Cool and 
decorate as desired. 
You don't have to make the icing
from scratch, or use a cake 
decorating piping set for these.
I used Pillsbury Creamy Supreme
classic white...super easy! Place
icing in a baggie, and twist top till
icing is in one corner. Cut tip of
baggie and use like piping bag!!!
Fun memories to last a lifetime!
             




      




My children's first!!!!







No comments: