Gingerbread Mummies

Ready in : 45 mins

Gingerbread Mummies might be a good recipe to expand your hor d'oeuvre repertoire. One serving contains 216 calories, 2g of protein, and 6g of fat. This recipe serves 18. For 30 cents per serving, this recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. 40 people have tried and liked this recipe. It will be a hit at your Christmas event. It is brought to you by Foodista. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes. It is a good option if you're following a lacto ovo vegetarian diet. Head to the store and pick up butter, milk, ground nutmeg, and a few other things to make it today. All things considered, we decided this recipe deserves a spoonacular score of 21%. This score is rather bad. Gingerbread Mummies, Marshmallow Mummies, and Yummy Mummies are very similar to this recipe.

Diets

LACTO OVO VEGETARIAN

Ingredients

butter

0.5 cup

all purpose flour

2.5 cups

granulated sugar

0.5 cup

molasses

0.5 cup

egg

1 large

balsamic vinegar

1 tablespoon

baking powder

1 teaspoon

ground ginger

1 teaspoon

baking soda

0.5 teaspoon

ground cinnamon

0.5 teaspoon

ground cloves

0.5 teaspoon

ground nutmeg

0.5 teaspoon

kosher salt

0.25 teaspoon

powdered sugar

2 cups

vanilla extract

0.5 teaspoon

milk

2 tablespoons

Cooking in Steps

1
In a bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter until light and fluffy.

butter

hand mixer

bowl
2
In a separate small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, ground ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and salt. Set aside.

baking powder

ginger powder

baking soda

cinnamon

clove

nutmeg

all purpose flour

salt

whisk

bowl
3
Add the sugar to the butter and beat until light and fluffy. Turn the mixer to low and mix in the molasses, egg and balsamic vinegar. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the bowl and continue mixing until thoroughly combined.

balsamic vinegar

molasses

butter

sugar

egg

blender

bowl
4
Cover and chill about 2 hours or until the dough is easy to handle.

dough
5
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

oven
6
Divide the dough in half and turn out onto a lightly floured surface.

dough
7
Roll each half of the dough to 1/4" thickness adding flour as needed, the dough is very sticky so use flour liberally to prevent your cutouts from sticking to the surface.

dough

all purpose flour

roll
8
Using cookie cutters, cut dough into shapes and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment approximately 1" apart.

cookies

dough

cookie cutter

baking sheet
9
Bake in a 400 degree oven for 5-6 minutes. Cool on baking sheets for one minute and move to a wire rack.

baking sheet

wire rack

oven
10
In a small bowl, combine the powdered sugar, vanilla and milk.

powdered sugar

vanilla

milk

bowl
11
Whisk to combine. Spoon mixture into a pastry bag or zip top bag and snip off the tip.

pastry bag

whisk
12
Add two small dots of icing where the eyes should be and then press one eye on each dot. Decorate the mummies using a zig-zag pattern across the surface of the cookie and allow to dry for 2-4 hours or overnight.

cookies

icing
13
Store in an airtight container.