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Here is my favorite Ginger Bread cookie.
It came to me through a long time friend Yvonne Witt who hosted a fantastic Ginger Bread house decorating party for a group of women. Her table was set with foil covered rectange placemats that worked as our workspace and plateform for our houses. She had prebaked the house pieces prior to us arriving and had a plethora of icings, candy, pretsels and everything you could inagine to decorate our homes. She also had saved pictures out of magazines over several years and laminated them as examples for how we might decorate our own homes.  It was simply the funnest food party I have ever been to!  Here is her recipe.
Ginger Bread Cookies
Preheat over to 350
1 1/2 c brown sugar
2 tsp soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp ginger
1 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp salt
1 c butter or margarine
1/3 c molasses
1 egg
3 1/4 c flour
In a large bowl put flour,soda, salt, and spices and mix well. Set aside. In another bowl beat sugar, egg, and butter until well creamed.  Then gradually add in dry ingredients. Cover and chill dough for 1 hour. Using a pasty cloth or lightly floured tea towel on the counter and cut the dough into 3rds. Rollout  and cut into little ginger bread men, bears, diamonds, trees, or any shape you want and bake on parchment paper.

 I have a hand cookie cutter that has a  small heart shape cut out and I place a red sugar cookie of the same size and drop it into the heart shaped cut out and it looks amazing as they bake. You can do the same thing with the bears or ginger bread men.  Cut their little hearts out and give them a red one! Cool well on a wire rack. You may use the simple white icing below or eat em plain!  Fabulous with coffee. Enjoy!
Icing
3 3/4 c powdered sugar
1/4 tsp cream of tarter
3 egg whites
Beat egg whites until firm add cream of tarter and then sugar gradually and whip on highest speed. Pipe onto cookies in dots or outline them. Display on a plate in a single layer. Take a picture and post them here!