Gingerbread Cookies for the Holidays

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Easy to follow, and is delicious, loved this one! Thanks Alex, the family adored this recipe!

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I found them extreamly easy to make. Wonderful taste and consistancy! Will deffinatly make this year after year!

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I made this cookies for Christmas last week and the dough is very sticky, not able to roll at all, the taste of the cookie was very good but very difficult to handle.

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We prefer a crispy gingerbread cookie, so we rolled thinner than recommended.

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These cookies need no frosting or embellishment to be great. We didn't get many to decorate because most of them were eaten warm right out of the oven. It also makes a great gingerbread house, but you have to be careful because this dough is softer than others and will break easily when warm.

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I picked this recipe over 11 other gingerbread cookie recipes I found online because I wanted a true molasses-based cookie, and the addition of orange rind a"peel"ed to me! Also, I liked adding just about every aromatic spice from my spice cabinet. (I hardly get to use some of them, like allspice.

Unlike some earler reviewers here, I had absolutely NO issue with a sticky or difficult dough. Just the opposite, in fact. I would have to say this was about the easiest cookie dough I've ever had the pleasure to roll out and cut!

My only problem was in removing the cookies from the cookie sheet after baking and slightly cooling them. They were difficult to pry off the sheet and some broke in the process. With each new sheet of baked cookies I tried a different removal time - varying from one minute to about six. I had trouble no matter how long I gave them. It got me to wondering whether I should lightly grease the cookie sheets in the future.

Apart from that, they were terrific: quite delicious with a pleasing texture. The recipe is now in my permanent holiday recipe file. Thans, Alex... and Merry Christmas to everyone!

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Never again! These were amazing! This was my and my daughter's first time making gingerbread and there is no doubt that this is going to become a wonderful new tradition! I made the dough (x's2 two nights ago, and came home last night to roll them out, bake and ice them! The dough took a few minutes to warm up enough to handle, but after that, I had ABSOLUTELY no problem with the texture/consistency of the dough. Of course, I had to keep flouring it to keep from sticking, but it was actually one of the easier doughs I have dealt with. Not sure why so many reviews had problems. These were amazing and the only way I have ever like gingerbread! Btw, I would not leave out the icing! It is wonderful and added with some sprinkles makes these cookies SO festive! We will be laying these out for Santa tonight!! Thank you!

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I don't normally make cookies that need to be rolled and cut, but my 5 year old REALLY wanted to make gingerbread men so I gave in and I'm glad I did. These cookies are simply womderful! My whole family loves them and I'm afraid they will all be gone before I even get to decorate them.

I've read the other reviews about the sticky dough and that was not my experience at all. In fact I had quite the opposite. The dough rolled and cut beautifully.

These cookies are going on my anual Christmas cookie list.

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I consider myself to be an experienced baker, but I guess not when it coms to gingerbread. This recipe takes SKILL people. I noticed most reviewers had problems with sticky, unworkable dough. My dough was the exact opposite. With four cups of flour in it (like the recipe says, the dough was dry and would not hold together, despite all my attempts of chilling and squeezing it together. I followed the recipe exactly, but this was my result. Since I was kinda making this dough late at night, and wasn't exactly thinking straight, in a moment of insanity, I added a teeny little bit of water to a part of it. BIG MISTAKE! The dough became so moist and sticky it was impossible to use. Now all I have is a section of sticky dough, and a section of crumbled dough pieces. Not to mention an extremely dirty kitchen.

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I made some last Christmas- disaster- swore I'd never make them again. I changed my mind when I saw the ingredients- orange zest and lemon juice- curiosity got me- glad it did, easy easy easy to make-and tasted awesome-I just have to hide the rest for Christmas! Thanks Donna