Let's Make Gingerbread Man Cookies for Santa Clause! #shorts

In this video I will show you how to make gingerbread man cookies for Santa Clause! It does not matter what you call him Santa Clause, Kris Kringle, Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Papa Noel, Papai Noel, Weihnachtsmann or Pere Noel, Santa Clause runs on Cookies! So on Christmas Eve Santa Clause is relying on all of us to provide him with Cookies Cookies and more cookies! One of Santa's Favorite cookies is the Gingerbread Man. So in this video I show you how to make the Gingerbread Man that I leave out for Santa Clause... And he has never missed my house on Christmas Eve so I would say he likes them!

Here is the recipe to make the Santa Clause pleasing,
Santa's favorite Gingerbread man cookies!
(adapted from the NYT recipe)
1/2 cup of shortening
1/2 cup sulfur free molasses
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/8 cup cold water
1 tablespoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1 tablespoon of ginger
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon of ground cloves
2 cups of all purpose flour and some additional for rolling out the dough

Heat the shortening, brown sugar, molasses and baking soda in a small sauce pan. Heat with continuous stirring until all the ingredients are incorporated and the mixture is smooth with no lumps. Take off the heat add the water and allow this mixture to come to room temperature.

Once it has achieved room temperature add the egg, baking powder, ginger and clove. Blend well with a mixer. Add the flour in small portions with continuous mixing. Wrap the dough in parchment paper and aluminum foil and refrigerate overnight.

After refrigerating, roll the dough onto a well floured clean and dry counter. Using a floured rolling pin roll out the dough until it is about 1/4 inches thick. Then using a gingerbread man cookie cutter cut out the pattern. If you do not have a gingerbread man cookie cutter you can use a clean glass. Be sure to flour the cookie cutter or glass before cutting out your patterns.

Place your Gingerbread men onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake for 10 minutes at 350° F. Once baked transfrer the Gingerbread men to a cooling rack and allow to cool for at least an hour before to decorating.

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