Pure Christmas deliciousness! Melt-in-your-mouth Gingerbread Gooey Butter Cookies baked from scratch and spiced just right for the Christmas holiday. Each nibble immediately brings back fond childhood memories of freshly baked gingerbread cake or cookies at Christmastime. Buttery, light yet moist and tender-crumbed, sweetened just right and full of spiced flavor. The powdered sugar even acts as an icing making this gingerbread cookie recipe incredibly easy as well as tasty. And you just can’t have one! Included is a scrumptious and irresistible gluten free variation. Add these fun gingerbread cookies to your holiday cookie tray and watch them quickly disappear. Everyone will rave!
Gingerbread Gooey Butter Cookies
2016-12-13 19:30:16
Prep Time
30 min
Cook Time
15 min
Total Time
45 min
Ingredients
- 2¼ cups plus 1 tablespoon (about 280 grams) pure organic unbleached all-purpose flour, such as Hodgson Mill®
- 2 teaspoons (about 8 grams) baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- 2½ teaspoons organic ground ginger
- 2 teaspoons organic ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon organic ground allspice
- ½ teaspoon freshly grated organic whole nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon organic ground cloves
- 1 (8-ounce/226-gram) package organic cream cheese, such as Organic Valley®, softened
- ½ cup (1 stick/113 grams) organic grass-fed unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup (200 grams) organic granulated cane sugar
- ½ cup (100 grams) packed organic light or dark brown cane sugar
- 1 tablespoon (15 ml) organic unsulphured molasses, such as Wholesome!™
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) pure vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon (1.25 ml) pure almond extract or Fiori di Sicilia extract
- ½ teaspoon fine-grain sea salt
- 1 large organic egg plus 1 large egg yolk (mine weighed 74 grams w/o shells)
- 1½ to 2 cups (180 to 240 grams) organic confectioners’ sugar, sifted, for rolling cookies twice before baking
Notes
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