Kid Friendly Gingerbread Cookies

     One of my favorite Christmas traditions is baking cookies. I love making all kinds of treats, but it just wouldn’t be Christmas with out Gingerbread Cookies. The only problem is my children are not big fans of the taste for Gingerbread. After we make them a few weeks will pass and they always end up hard as a rock and then into the trash they go! So this year I tried a new recipe that looked like it was “kid friendly” and it was a success. My children ate half the batch before getting a chance to decorate them.

Kid Friendly Gingerbread Cookies

Ingredients

1 (3.5 ounce) package instant butterscotch pudding mix
1/2 cup butter (softened to room temp)
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Directions

1. In a medium bowl, cream together the dry butterscotch pudding mix, butter, and brown sugar until smooth.
2. Stir in the egg. Combine the flour, baking soda, ginger, and cinnamon; stir into the pudding mixture. Cover, and chill dough until firm, at least 1 hour (I leave mine over night).
3. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease baking sheets. On a * floured surface, roll dough out and cut into shapes using cookie cutters. Place cookies 2 inches apart on the prepared baking sheets (they spread alot).
4. Bake for 7-8 minutes in the preheated oven, until cookies are golden at the edges. Cool on wire racks.
5. Decorate as desired.

* make sure your suface is floured at all times...everytime you roll it out re-flour your surface or it will stick!