Name: Sugar Cookies Shaped As Gingerbread men recipe by Amrita Gill Tupper at BetterButter
Prep time: 60 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 75 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: 3 cups all purpose flour; 1 cup powdered sugar; 200 gms butter, room temperature; 1 egg; 1 tsp Baking powder; 1 tsp vanilla essence; 2 tbsp cocoa powder

ABOUT Sugar Cookies Shaped As Gingerbread men RECIPE

Adorable Gingerbread men made with a simple sugar cookie recipe are sure to win hearts of everyone

Ingredients Serving: 10

3 cups all purpose flour
1 cup powdered sugar
200 gms butter, room temperature
1 egg
1 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 tbsp cocoa powder

Instructions

Preheat oven to 170 degree Celsius.
Take butter and sugar in a bowl and beat till it gets light and fluffy.
Sieve all purpose flour, cocoa powder and baking powder.
Add egg and vanilla essence to the butter-sugar mixture and mix well.
Add the flour mixture in 3-4 additions and keep mixing.
Knead into a dough and wrap in a plastic or cling wrap and refrigerate for an hour.
Take a little of the dough and roll it to the desired thickness, preferably 1/3rd of an inch.
Cut cookies in desired shape and place them on a butter paper lined baking tray
Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes.
Allow to cool.
Decorate the cookies with melted white chocolate piping or icing sugar mixed with little water. You may add food colour to make colourful icing.

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