Gingerbread Spritz Cookies

Thanksgiving is over, so that can only mean one thing...Christmas! What better way to get ready for the holidays than to make Christmas Cookies! How about gingerbread cookies without all the work of rolling and cutting. These Gingerbread Spritz Cookies have the buttery goodness of a classic Spritz combined with molasses and warm spices of holiday gingerbread. Quick and easy cookies with tons of Christmas cheer!  
                                            🎄Happy Holidays!🎄

Gingerbread Spritz Cookies

Makes ~5 dozen

1 cup butter, unsalted
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup molasses
1 egg
3 cups flour
1 1/2 t cinnamon
1 t ground ginger
1/4 t ground allspice
1/4 t ground cloves
1/8 t white pepper

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Cream butter and sugar in a large bowl with a hand mixer. Add the molasses and the egg and beat until incorporated. In a separate bowl, mix together flour, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, cloves and pepper. Add flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix until combined.

Add cookie dough to cookie press and press out desired shapes on an ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake for 6-8 minutes until dough is just set but not brown. Cool completely before decorating.

Vanilla Icing
1 cup powdered sugar
1 t vanilla extract
1 T milk
Stir all ingredients together and drizzle over cookies and put some icing in a squeeze bottle for detail work if desired. Top with sprinkles while icing is still wet.

More Christmas recipes:

Gingerbread Petit Fours

Gingerbread Biscotti

Red Velvet Brownies