Re: Need Gingerbread Cookie Recipe

[Guest guest]

This is a great recipe, the dough is easy to work with, and if you add

cloves to it you have " gingerbread cookie dough. " Thanks to who ever

posted this several months ago when I needed to make graham crackers. I

love recipes that are so versitile!

Sharon in Virginia

Graham Crackers

Use animal cookie cutters, sprinkle with cinnamon/sugar. Great! Makes

enough cut crackers to fill two jelly roll pans.

3/4 cup butter substitute (Fleischman's or Mother's margarine)

1/4 cup honey

1 cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 1/2 cups brown rice flour

1 1/2 cups GF flour mix

1 teaspoon xanthan gum

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 tablespoon GF baking powder

1/2 to 3/4 cup water ***careful, err on the side of firmer than too soft

Cream butter, honey, sugar and vanilla. Mix dry ingredients in another

bowl. Add some calcium powder and ground flaxseed to the dry mix if

desired.

Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture. Add water slowly, stop when dough

begins to form a ball. Refrigerate dough for at least 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 325. Roll dough onto floured parchment paper, plastic or

counter. Roll until about 1/2 inch thick. Cut into squares. Transfer to

greased cookie sheet. Prick with a fork. Sprinkle with cinnamon and

sugar. Bake 20 - 30 minutes. Don't let them get too brown. Take them

out after 20 minutes for a softer cookie-cracker.

Quick Squares: Form large ropes, 3-inch diameter cylindrical shapes.

Square off each to shape a long rectangular box (I forget the name of

this 3-D geometric shape). Chill. Slice to make easy square crackers.

Gently press a cookie cutter into each cracker until design is etched on

the top. *Family Favorite! P & J like these designs better than fork

pricks!

Quick Cracker Nickels: Roll dough into ropes the diameter of a nickel.

Chill. Slice into 1/4-inch nickels. Bake.

Cinnamom Graham Crackers: Before baking, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.

Honey Cinnamon Graham Crackers: After baking, brush with honey and

sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.

GingerBread Men & Houses: Add 1/4 teaspoon cloves. Substitute molasses

for honey if desired.

Ritz Crackers: Decrease honey to 1 tablespoon, use 1/4 cup white sugar

instead of brown sugar (or all white sugar, no honey), leave out vanilla

and cinnamon. Add water in very small amounts, probably less then with

graham crackers. Chill, roll thin (about 1/8 inch thick), cut with a

fluted-edge biscuit cutter. Transfer to a cookie sheet. Prick with fork.

Spray with oil. Salt. Bake.

Club Crackers: Omit honey. Cut into rectangles using pizza cutter. Prick

with fork. Spray with oil. Salt. Bake.

Special Treat Graham Crackers: Dip in melted chocolate. Cool.

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On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:40:21 -0400 maccabeus@... writes:

> Does anyone have a recipe for gingerbread men/people? I kind of need

> one

> in a hurry and have yet to figure out how to access the archives.

> Many

> thanks.

>

> ( & Malachi's mom)

>