Someone get these away from me. Fast.
I’ve bitten the heads off of a handful of these because I thought it was funny {I have anger issues} and I wanted an excuse to eat them. Okay, really I just wanted an excuse to eat them. I hate wasting food.
Fortunately for me I have four boys who thought they were just as good as I did and they also thought it was just as funny to bite their heads off. I was so made to have boys.
Since I am so well versed with regards to baking with my kids I decided to bake these alone this time. It somewhat defeats the purpose of cooking with your kids but I’m still recovering from my last experience and I knew they would have way more fun decorating them.
That is if they would leave their heads on long enough.
Adapted from a recipe in Gooseberry Patch Christmas Book 7
Ingredients
- 1 - 18 1/2 oz box of Spice Cake Mix
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 1 large egg
- 2 egg whites, slightly beaten
- 1/3 cup applesauce
- 1/2 cup molasses
Instructions
- Place cake mix, 1 cup of flour, and ginger in a large mixing bowl or stand mixer. Stir until well blended.
- Mix in the rest of the ingredients. Gradually mix in the rest of the flour until you have a thick, slightly sticky dough.
- Cover the dough and refrigerated for 1-2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- Unwrap dough and place it on a lightly floured surface. Roll out the dough to 1/4" thick and cut out the gingerbread boys. To get the most cookies out of one batch continue to ball and roll out the dough until most of it is used.
- Bake on a parchment lined baking sheet for 8-10 minutes.
- Decorate or eat as is.
I love using boxed cake mix for cookies. I will be looking for the spice cake mix, it sounds perfect and these are adorable gingerbread men!
I just love gingerbread cookies. Gingerbread anything for that matter!
Yummy! See, they’re low fat, so you CAN eat as many as you want.