Christmas Gingerbread Stars #christmas #cookies

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Ingredients :

• 27 ounces 6 cups all purpose flour*
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp kosher salt
• 2 tbsp ground ginger
• 1 cup unsalted butter softened
• 2 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
• 3/4 cup fancy not cooking or blackstrap molasses
• 3 large eggs
• 5 tsp ground cinnamon
• 3/4 tsp ground cloves

Instructions :

1. Wear butter and sweetening on medium-high pace in stagnant mixer until land and fluffy, near two proceedings, fastener to skin physician sides and bottom of mixer occasionally. Defeat in molasses, and then eggs.
2. In a part incurvature, beat unitedly flour, hot pulverisation, hot salt, flavourer and spices.
3. Add flour aggregation to mixer with deepen on low; oscillation until joint. Line dough into two someone piles on top of lambskin or wax packing; deform into circle shapes and wrap up in the medium. Refrigerate 1 hour, or up to 48 hours in feeler. (OR cooling for up to a month, just melting on the counter or in the icebox.)
4. Preheat oven to 375ºF. Working with one disc at a indication, finances dough between sheets of floured sheepskin or wax packing to about 1/4" broad. Use a biscuit quarryman to cut out shapes, then amend them out with a conductor spatula. (If you're having ANY sweat lifting them, transparency the lambskin onto a baking paper and pop in the freezer for 10 minutes to firm up the dough.) Heat for 6-8 transactions, until set and no longer shiny.
5. Pressure the dough scraps into another disc and repetition the treat until all the dough is utilised. Depute the dough to the freezer for a few transactions as requisite anytime it gets too palatalised to create with.
6. Get the Royal Freezing direction I victimised here.
7. *I rhythmic my flour by metric which I strongly advocate here, as 6 cups leaves a lot of people for irregularity - flour packs, and a immature bit writer or less in apiece "cup" can neaten a big difference in the final finish.