I make these for Xmas. I like them a whole lot better than gingerbread.
Ingredients
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup shortening or butter
1 egg
1/2 cup molasses
1/2 cup water
2 cups flour
1 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp each, nutmeg, ground cloves, & cinnamon
Vanilla butter frosting (recipe follows)
Directions
Preheat the oven to 400°F
Cream sugar, shortening, egg, molasses & water together in a mixer. Stir in the rest. Drop by round teaspoons 2” apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake until almost no indentation remains when touched, about 8 minutes. Cool. Frost.