The Great Gingerbread Adventure Part 2: Gingerbread Cookies

All right here we are with the second part to my gingerbread adventure. This time I'm talking all about gingerbread cookies!

All right I'll confess, I wasn't orginially going to make gingerbread cookies. I found the recipe for gingerbread spice and gingerbread pancakes, so I thought that would be enough. Then I thought again and realized gingerbread cookies are the most important gingerbread things to make. (Other than houses, I guess, but I'll save that for next year!). So here we go with my attempt to make ginger bread cookies!

The Recipe

Soft and Chewy Gingerbread Cookies

from Cooking Classy

Results

Before I even start, I would like to say: Check Your Recipe! I ended up making 3x times as many cookies as I was planning because I didn't check the recipe and I thought I knew what was needed! But that's life! Now on with the cookie making!

As always I followed my recipe (and then realized I tripled the amount of molasses, so I had to triple everything else).

Here is the obligatory picture of my kitchen aid stand mixer creaming the butter and brown sugar together.

(Afterwards is when I dumped in 3 times too much molasses and then decided to just continue on. And then I backtracked here and started the recipe over again; starting with creaming together 2x times as much brown sugar and butter. And if you really want your stand mixer to shake and groan, try mixing enough cookie dough for 6 dozen cookies in it. I made it a little more than halfway through and then decided it was better to just mix it by hand.)

Once I finally had the dough together, Blue decided to help me roll out the dough. I was more than happy to let him. I hate rolling out dough. It always turns into a mess and then I just get frustrated. 

Blue on the other hand, had a blast trying to roll it out. (Even though he didn't get it rolled out very much)

Next I let him use the Christmas cookie cutters.

I have three; a Snowman, a Christmas Tree and a Gingerbread Man. Blue made sure he used all three in his pile. (Well the best he could)

I then rerolled the dough for him and let him cut out a couple more shapes. And then we finally got to bake them!

Here is how they turned out (after we tasted a couple of them):

As for the rest of my six dozen cookies, I decided to skip the rolling the dough and using cookie cutters and instead just rolled it balls and then flattened them to cook.