Gingerbread Men

Ingredients

	3 cups	flour
	2 tsp	ground ginger
	1 tsp	ground cinnamon
	1 tsp	baking soda
	0.25 tsp	ground nutmeg
	0.25 tsp	salt
	0.75 cup	butter (softened)
	0.75 cup	brown sugar
	0.5 cup	molasses
	1	egg
	1 tsp	vanilla

Steps

1) Mix flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, and salt and set aside
2) Mix butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy
3) Add molasses, egg, and vanilla and mix well
4) Gradually mix in flour mixture
5) Press dough into thick flat round disk and refrigerate 4 hours to overnight
6) Roll out dough to 1/4 thickness and cut using 5 inch gingerbread man cutter
7) Place 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet
8) Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes until edges set and just begin to brown
9) Cool on cookie sheet and decorate
10) Store in air tight container up to 5 days