Honey Gingerbread Cookies

Total Time: 27 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 30
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons powdered ginger
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon powdered clove
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/2 lb butter or 1/2 lb margarine, cut into dots
• 1/2 cup honey

Recipe

• 1 sift the sugar, flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg together into a mixing bowl. work the dots of butter into the dry ingredients with your fingertips.when throughly worked in, add the honey and stir until blended.
• 2 refrigerate for an hour, or longer if possible.
• 3 roll the dough out about 1/8-inch thick on a floured board or between sheets of waxed paper. cut it into the shapes of gingerbread men or houses or pooh shapes made from tracings of the pooh drawings.
• 4 bake for 12-15 minutes on a cookie sheet in the preheated oven. remove from oven and, after a minute, from cookie sheet with a spatula to cool on cake racks.