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.
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!!!!
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