Looking for a gingerbread dessert? Then check out these girl and boy shaped saucepan cookies – delightful holiday treats.
Here’s My Heart Gingerbread Pals
- Prep Time 1 hr 25 min
- Total 2 hr 25 min
- Servings 30
- Ingredients 13
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup light molasses
- 2 tablespoons water
- 2/3 cup butter or margarine
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 1/4 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 4 oz vanilla-flavored candy coating (almond bark)
- 4 teaspoons red decorating sugar
Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1In 3-quart saucepan, cook and stir molasses and water over medium heat until hot; remove from heat. Stir in butter and brown sugar until smooth. Stir in remaining ingredients except candy coating and decorating sugar. Divide dough in half; shape into 2 disks. Wrap each in plastic wrap; refrigerate 1 hour.
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Step2Heat oven to 350°F. On floured surface, roll 1 disk of dough 1/8 inch thick. Cut with floured 3- to 3 1/2-inch gingerbread boy and girl cookie cutters. With 1-inch heart-shaped cutter, cut out small heart in center of each cookie. On 1 ungreased cookie sheet, place gingerbread cutouts. On second ungreased cookie sheet, place hearts. Repeat with second disk.
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Step3Bake hearts 5 to 7 minutes, gingerbread cookies 7 to 9 minutes, or until set. Remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks.
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Step4In small microwavable bowl, microwave candy coating on High 1 minute; stir until smooth. Frost each heart with coating; immediately sprinkle with red sugar. Place dot of melted coating on back of heart; place on hand of each gingerbread cookie or near cutout heart on body of cookie. Decorate as desired.
Nutrition
110
Calories
5g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
15g
Total Carbohydrate
7g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 110
- Calories from Fat
- 50
- Total Fat
- 5g
- 8%
- Saturated Fat
- 3g
- 16%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 20mg
- 6%
- Sodium
- 95mg
- 4%
- Potassium
- 70mg
- 2%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 15g
- 5%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 7g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 2%
- 2%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 4%
- 4%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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