Standing Gingerbread Men Sugar Cookies

• Refrigerated

  • 1 Egg
  • 4 Egg whites

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 tsp Baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp Cream of tartar
  • 3 cups Flour
  • 2 cups Powdered sugar
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract

• Dairy

  • 1 cup Butter

• Other

  • Brown (copper and red food dye

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Description

Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 4 egg whites
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Brown (copper) and red food dye

Directions

• In a large bowl, cream the soft butter with the sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
• Add egg, then vanilla, continuing to mix.
• In a separate small bowl, stir together the flour, baking soda and salt.
• Add dry ingredients to the wet mixture and thoroughly combine.
• Form the dough into a ball, wrap with cling wrap and refrigerate for 6 hours or overnight.
• When ready to bake, preheat oven to 325F
• Flour a cutting board and roll out the dough to a 1/2 thickness (adding more flour if necessary).
• Cut the cookie dough into equal numbers of circle, gingerbread and reindeer shapes.
• Place cut cookies on a lined cookie sheet and bake for 8 minutes until set and slightly golden.
• Let cool for one minute on the cookie sheet and then remove to a cooling rack.
• Combine all frosting ingredients except food dye and adjust the consistency as needed. Divide into 3 bowls - one bowl receiving half of the frosting and the other two receiving smaller amounts.
• Add the copper brown food dye to the largest portion of frosting and stir to combine, then red to one of the smaller bowls - leaving one white.
• Scoop brown frosting into a piping bag fitted with a #2 Wilton tip and outline the gingerbread men and reindeer cookies.
• Let set about 5 minutes before filling in the cookies.
• (If needed, thin out the brown icing a bit with additional milk or water to fill in the lines.)
• Let dry for 3 hours before adding details with the white and red frosting.
• Frost the circle cookes with white icing and carefully set the gingerbread men and reindeer standing up on the cookies. Let dry for 2 hours before storing or serving.