✨Ingredients

• 1 cup all purpose flour

• 1/3 cup molasses

• 1 tbsp brown sugar

• 1/3 cup coconut oil

• 1/2 tsp baking powder

• 1/2 tbsp ground ginger

• 1/2 tbsp cinnamon

• 1/2 tsp nutmeg

• 1/2 tsp cloves

• 1/2 tsp vanilla

• dash of salt

✨Decorations

candy canes

white,red, green & black icing

INSTRUCTIONS

• In a large bowl, combine the flour, molasses, brown sugar, coconut oil, baking powder, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, vanilla, and salt. Mix them well until you have a thick dough.

• Place the ball of dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate it for 15-20 minutes. This is so the dough can be less sticky when you roll it out.

• After the dough has chilled, take it out of the fridge and use a rolling pin to roll it out to about 1-2 millimeters in thickness. Use a gingerbread cookie cutter to cut out the shapes and line them on a baking sheet.

• *You will need a few sets of wooden chopsticks to mock the shape of the candy cane. Break each chopstick in half. Place the chopstick on top of the gingerbread men, exactly where you would want the candy cane to be. Then *carefully* shape the gingerbread man's hands around the chopstick.

• The reason for using chopsticks is that the candy canes will melt in the oven. You need the chopstick (or another wooden stick) to hold the shape while the cookies are baking.

• After you have shaped all of the cookies so that they are holding the chopsticks, bake the cookies in the oven for 20 minutes at 350*F/ 175*C.

• Right after you take out the cookies from the oven (before they have cooled off), *gently* remove the chopsticks and immediately replace them with a candy cane.

• Don't get sad if a few of the cookies lose their arms in the process, I definitely broke a few doing this.

• Now draw eyes, a smile, buttons, rosy cheeks, and white squiggly lines to resemble clothes.