Gingerbread Men

Gingerbread cookies are amuse at christmas! Everybody loves them, they are fun to make, fun to decorate, and fun to eat! They are also a perfect cookie to give to Santa on Christmas Eve ;) A lot of the cookies I am making are cookies my mom has made, except they are not vegan. So, basically, what I have done is replicated almost all of her cookies, but vegan, that way people can try the vegan ones and the non vegan ones, and realize there is NO difference!!:) Don't believe me? Try for yourself:) All you'll need is...

1/2 cup canola oil
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup dark molasses
1/3 cup soy milk
2 1/2 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1/8 teaspoon allspice, or nutmeg is fine too

Icing:
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon soy milk

Mix the oil, sugars, molasses, milk, and spices together. In a separate bowl, mix the flour and baking powder. Then, when they are bother mixed well, add the flour to the other bowl. Rap the dough up and place it in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Roll out your dough in between two layers of cellophane rap, to avoid it sticking to the rolling pin and your counter. Begin to cut out your men, or other desired shapes. Place them on a tray to cook and cook for 10 minutes.


While they cook make your icing, and put it into a plastic ziplock bag. Put the bag in the fridge to cool the icing.

Put your cooked cookies on a rack to cool. Once they have cooled, place all of them on a tray and grab a few other trays too. Get your icing, and in one corner, cut out a small hole (SMALL). 

Begin to ice your cookies, placing them on your other trays once you finish them to allow them to dry. Here are some ideas below.



When you finish, let them sit overnight, and then put them in an airtight container, layering them with wax paper so they do not stick to each other, and freeze them to keep them fresh until you serve them. Remove them from the freezer one hour before serving. Enjoy!!!

Julia