This year I’m going with a simple white royal icing because I really like how the white stands out against the warm brown of the gingerbread cookies. I am a little more refined than the kids with my gingerbread cookie decorating. I fill up bowls with different colors, shapes, and sizes and the kids have a great time covering their cookies with all sorts of interesting designs. Then I let them go to town! Of course their favorite part is the Wilton Christmas Sprinkles and Wilton Mini Candy Eyeballs. When I let the kids help I usually color the royal icing with Christmas colors and put it in squeeze bottles. For my Soft Gingerbread Cookies I made royal icing and piped it on to make perfectly decorated snowflakes, Christmas trees and gingerbread men (and women!). I think that makes these great for Christmas because you can make them on Christmas Eve and enjoy them just as much on the day after Christmas.Īs much as I like baking the decorating is always my favorite part. As it bakes dough puffs up slightly and makes this beautifully soft, sweet, spicy gingerbread cookie that I absolutely love! I made a huge batch and kept them in an airtight container and 2 days later when I managed to win the fight for the last cookie it was still just as soft as the day it was baked. The dough doesn’t spread at all while it bakes so it holds the cookie cutter shape perfectly. I chilled my dough and then rolled it out and used the cookie cutters from my Wilton Holiday Cookie Value Set to cut out my cookies.

My Soft Gingerbread Cookie recipe works great as a Christmas cut out cookie. It’s perfect for my new Soft Gingerbread Cookie recipe because the cookies cutters are a Christmas tree, a snowflake, and the classic gingerbread man. It is an 11 piece cooking baking set that includes a large cookie sheet, cooling grid, 5 parchment sheets, 3 metal cookie cutters and red, green and white jimmies. This year, to get my Christmas baking started, I picked up a Wilton Holiday Cookie Value Set at Walmart. I’m not sure who loves it more me or them :). We pull out all of my cookie decorations from Wilton Christmas sprinkles to Wilton Mini Candy Eyeballs and I let the kids go crazy. I make beautifully decorated cookies for my Christmas parties and as gifts but I always have the most fun closer to Christmas when I get to bake with my niece and nephews. We’re so excited to be partnering with Wilton today to share some amazing Christmas cookies! All Thoughts and opinions are 100% our own.Ĭhristmas cut out cookies are my favorite because I get to pull out a piping bag and get creative with the decorations. I’ve already made a test batch and they were perfectly soft and chewy, just the way I like my gingerbread cookies. This year I’m adding a few new recipes to my list starting with this Soft Gingerbread Cookie recipe. I usually spend the weekend after Thanksgiving in the kitchen making dough and assembling all sorts of cookies to give to friends and family during the holidays.

Just a few more days until Thanksgiving and I’m already starting to think about Christmas and all of the Christmas cookies I want to bake this year. This Soft Gingerbread Cookie recipe makes a batch of traditional Christmas cookies that you can cut out and bake for Christmas dessert!

Soft gingerbread cookie recipe