These delicious gingerbread cookies are so cute, they look like they came from a package! Easy Glazed Gingerbread Cookies with a pretty vanilla glaze are an essential addition to your Christmas baking this year!





Glazed Gingerbread Cookies Recipe

I’m sharing today’s Christmas cookie recipe as part of a yearly “virtual cookie exchange” hosted by my friend, Natasha. You can check out all of the cookie recipes from the other participants at the bottom of this post.

This gingerbread cookie dough has taken me a couple of years to perfect, but I think we’re finally there!

These little glazed gingerbread cookies have that perfect snappy bite when you first tuck into them that gives way quickly to a soft, chewy gingerbread with the perfect amount of warming flavors. The cookies themselves are not too sweet so that vanilla glaze is not just super cute, it also helps add in some balance of sweetness.

The secret to these super cute cookies is two-fold:


how pretty the vanilla sugar glaze looks when set on the baked cookies
the design created by the plunger-style Christmas cookie cutters





I experimented a lot with this recipe – I wanted the perfect hard bite with a soft chew, and I wanted the perfect glaze.

While the glaze works if applied when the cookies are warm or cooled, I personally like it best when the glaze is applied to cooled gingerbread cookies. With the warm cookies, it’s absorbed more and doesn’t have the same uniform “candied” coating, plus it results in a harder cookie because the sugar glaze doesn’t “seal” the cookies but is absorbed into the cookie and crystallizes underneath the cookie “crust.” However, if you like a harder cookie, this may be the option that is best for you.

Can you freeze these cookies? Gingerbread cookies are one of the few cookies that you can freeze (either decorated or undecorated) without a flavor or quality loss! You can also freeze the dough and just allow it to come to room temperature before baking, so choose whichever works best for you!

More Gingerbread Recipes:


Old-Fashioned Gingerbread Cake
Star Wars Gingerbread Wookie Cookies
Gingerbread Layer Cake
Instant Pot Gingerbread Cheesecake
Gingerbread Rice Krispie Squares
No Cook Gingerbread Fudge
Crockpot Gingerbread Lattes
Gingerbread Cupcakes




This recipe is also featured in our Classic Christmas Cookies ebook, where we have gathered 40 of our favorite Christmas cookie recipes – from Peanut Butter Buckeyes to Easy Shortbread, Cream Cheese Mints to Toffee Biscuits!

These cookies all share a few things in common:


They are easy enough for the kids to help make
They require no special ingredients requiring visits to 5 different grocery stores
They are Christmas classics that everyone will be excited to see at the Cookie Exchange
And they are delicious!


To make your holiday baking even easier, we’ve included several tips to ensure the best results so you can just focus on having fun with your kids and trust that these cookies will turn out perfectly, every time.

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Glazed Gingerbread Cookie Ingredients


Butter, room temperature
Brown Sugar
Egg
Milk
Fancy Molasses
All-Purpose Flour
Baking Soda
Cinnamon

Ground Ginger, or more to taste
Salt


For the vanilla glaze:


Powdered Icing Sugar
Warm Water

Butter, melted

Vanilla Extract, optional


Scroll down to the printable recipe card for full measurements.

Tip: this recipe will also work with pre-made gingerbread cookie dough, if you don’t want the hassle of from-scratch gingerbread cookie dough.

Kitchen Tools You May Find Helpful



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Cooling racks


How to Make Glazed Gingerbread Cookies

In a large bowl, cream together the butter and brown sugar for 2 minutes.

Add the egg and milk and beat to combine. Add the molasses and beat until fully combined. Set aside.

In a medium-sized bowl, stir together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger and salt.

Beat the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until no dry patches remain.

Cover with plastic wrap and place dough in the fridge for 1 hour or overnight.

Preheat oven to 350F

Line two baking trays with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. Set aside.

Roll out the cookie dough to 1/2″ thickness.

Cut out the cookie shapes with your chosen cutters and place the shapes on the prepared cookie trays.

Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes until  well browned.

Allow to cool for 2 minutes on baking sheets before attempting to move to a cooling rack.

Once the cookies are cooled, prepare the glaze.

In a wide bowl, combine all glaze ingredients and stir well until no powdered sugar lumps remain.

Dip each cookie into the glaze and allow the excess glaze to run off.

Place the cookies back on the cooling rack or cookie sheet and allow to dry for 1-2 hours before attempting to store or serve.

 

Pin this Easy Glazed Gingerbread Cookie recipe for your Christmas Baking:

Grab your free printable for our glazed gingerbread cookie recipe:






Yield: 48 cookies

Glazed Gingerbread Cookies








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Crunchy glazed gingerbread cookies with a soft inside, these iced gingerbread cookies are better than any store-bought gingerbread cookies you will ever taste!





Prep Time
15 minutes


Cook Time
10 minutes


Additional Time
10 minutes


Total Time
35 minutes




Ingredients



3/4 cup butter, room temperature

3/4 cups brown sugar

1 egg

1/4 cup milk

3/4 cup fancy molasses

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 Tablespoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon ginger, or more to taste

1/2 teaspoon salt

For the vanilla glaze:


1 cup powdered icing sugar

1-2 Tablespoons warm water

1 Tablespoon butter, melted

1 teaspoon vanilla extract, optional



Instructions

In a large bowl, cream together the butter and brown sugar for 2 minutes.
Add the egg and milk and beat to combine. Add the molasses and beat until fully combined. Set aside.
In a medium-sized bowl, stir together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger and salt.
Beat the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until no dry patches remain.
Cover with plastic wrap and place dough in the fridge for 1 hour or overnight.
Preheat oven to 350F
Line two baking trays with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. Set aside.
Roll out the cookie dough to 1/2" thickness.
Cut out the cookie shapes with your chosen cutters and place the shapes on the prepared cookie trays.
Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes until  well browned.
Allow to cool for 2 minutes on baking sheets before attempting to move to a cooling rack.
Once the cookies are cooled, prepare the glaze.
In a wide bowl, combine all glaze ingredients and stir well until no powdered sugar lumps remain.
Dip each cookie into the glaze and allow the excess glaze to run off.
Place the cookies back on the cooling rack or cookie sheet and allow to dry for 1-2 hours before attempting to store or serve.



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