Soft Gingerbread Button Cookies

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Cute as a Button

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Ingredients

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Once the dough is mixed and chilled, roll the gingerbread out using Silpat and parchment paper.

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Using the larger cookie cutter, stamp out as many circles as possible.

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Chill the stamped buttons, then using your straw, poke a two or four buttonhole pattern in the center of the cookies. The little hole plug comes out easiest if the dough is cold and you twist the straw a few times before you pull it out.

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Tied Up with String

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Soft Gingerbread Button Cookies

For a fun little spin on traditional gingerbread cookies, try this recipe for button cookies!

Cute as a Button

These adorable little button cookies are slightly crisp on the edge, though still soft in the middle. The combination of molasses and dark-brown sugar gives them that perfect ‘tooth’.

Ingredients

All-Purpose Flour & Salt Baking Powder & Soda Butter & Brown Sugar Gingerbread Spices Orange Zest Large Eggs Molasses Tools Needed

Once the dough is mixed and chilled, roll the gingerbread out using Silpat and parchment paper.

Using the larger cookie cutter, stamp out as many circles as possible.

Tamp down on the smaller cookie cutter just enough to leave a mark, but not enough to cut all the way through.

Chill the stamped buttons, then using your straw, poke a two or four buttonhole pattern in the center of the cookies. The little hole plug comes out easiest if the dough is cold and you twist the straw a few times before you pull it out.

Tied Up with String

Give Gingerbread Button Cookies as a gift or take them to a cookie swap. Just threading a stack of the buttons together with a piece of baker’s twine.

More CHRISTMAS cookies

Spiced Linzer Cookie Recipe

Glaed crisp ginger molasses cookies

easy amaretti cookies

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Merry Christmas!