gingerbread cookies on a cooling rack with the words perfectly soft and chewy in front of them

Soft & Chewy Gingerbread Cookies with Royal Icing

24 ratings

· 2hr 10min · Vegetarian · 36 servings

These delicious gingerbread cookies bake up soft and chewy, are perfectly spiced, and are decorated with vanilla royal icing to look like little gingerbread men.

Chelsweets

Ingredients

Produce

• 2 tsp Ginger, ground

Refrigerated

• 1 Egg, room temperature (56g), large

Condiments

• 1/4 cup Molasses, dark

Baking & Spices

• 1/2 tsp Baking soda

• 1/4 cup Brown sugar, packed light

• 1 tsp Cinnamon, ground

• 1/4 tsp Cloves, ground

• 1 Gel food coloring, Red

• 1 Gel food coloring, Green

• 1 Gel food coloring, Black

• 3/4 cup Granulated sugar

• 3 tbsp Meringue, powder

• 1/2 tsp Nutmeg, ground

• 3 1/2 cups Powdered sugar

• 1/4 tsp Salt, fine

• 1 cup Sanding sugar - optional, white

• 2 tbsp Vanilla or almond extract

Dairy

• 1/2 cup 1 stick unsalted butter, unsalted

Liquids

• 1/3 cup Water

• 1 Water to bring to a flooding consistency

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