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Homemade Maple Syrup Gingerbread Cookies
Homemade maple syrup gingerbread cookies are soft maple and ginger holiday cookies without. molasses.
Course
Dessert
Cuisine
American
Prep Time
15
minutes
minutes
Cook Time
7
minutes
minutes
freezer time
30
minutes
minutes
Total Time
22
minutes
minutes
Servings
24
cookies
Author
Jenn
Ingredients
3
cups
(384 g) All Purpose Flour
1 ½
tsp
Baking Powder
¾
tsp
Baking Soda
¼
tsp
Kosher Salt
1
Tbsp
Ground Ginger
1 ¾
tsp
Ground Cinnamon
¼
tsp
Ground Cloves
¾
cup
(150 g) Dark Brown Sugar
6
Tbsp
Unsalted Butter
softened
1
Egg
½
cup
(125 ml) Maple Syrup
¼
cup
(125 ml) Honey
2
tsp
Vanilla Extract
Topping
Easy Royal Icing Recipe
Sparkling Sugar
for sprinkling
Instructions
Preheat oven to 375 F (190 C) and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, and cloves.
In bowl of stand mixer with paddle attachment, beat softened butter, brown sugar, and egg until well blended.
Add maple syrup, honey, and vanilla.
Gradually spoon in dry ingredients, continuing on medium high until blended and smooth.
Wrap dough plastic and refrigerate for 2 hrs
Sprinkle rolling surface and rolling pin with flour.
Roll dough out to ¼-inch thickness.
Cut out cookies using a 3.5 inch snowflake cookie cutter.
Space cookies 1 ½-inches apart on cookie sheet.
Bake 8-10 minutes until edges start to brown.
Place pan on rack to cool for 10min before removing cookies.
Use homemade or store bought royal cookie icing.
Pip a thin trace line around the edges of the snowflake.
Then pipe icing to fill in star shape. Take a toothpick and move icing to cover bare spots.
Sprinkle wet icing with sparkling sugar.
Notes
Pour some milk, scoop some peppermint ice cream, and enjoy!