Chocolate Christmas trees are simple to create and make wonderful tops for holiday cakes, cupcakes, or desserts. When handling the finished trees, which are delicate and prone to melting, I typically use plastic gloves.
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 4 dozen |
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup shortening
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ cup molasses
- ½ cup water
- 2 cups self-rising flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Cream the shortening, sugar, egg, molasses and water. Mix in the flour, salt, ginger, nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon. Cover and chill for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C).
- Drop teaspoonfuls of dough onto ungreased cookie sheets about 2 inches apart. Bake for about 8 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 102 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 17 g |
| Cholesterol | 8 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 1 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1 g |
| Sodium | 186 mg |
| Sugars | 8 g |
| Fat | 3 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
They were puffy and very cakey. The taste is okay; I will let them sit and see if they are better in a couple days. I definitely had to put icing on them, otherwise they were not to our tastes.
Easy Creamy Icing- Blend 1C sifted powdered sugar, 1/4 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp vanilla or other preferred flavoring, and approximately 1 to 1 1/2 TBSP water. Tint if desired with food coloring.
The recipe is called ginger cream cookies but there is no recipe for the cream icing. I lost my recipe.
I found these to be very dry & bland. I can see why the other reviewers added frosting.
good flavor and easy to make. had to substitute for self raising flour a mixture of 1-1/2 tsp. baking powder and 1/2 tsp salt for every cup of flour. Also, did a frosting of powdered sugar dash salt butter vanilla, few tablespoons coffee and few drops of molasses. yum!
Ease of preparation, but no flavor – and I doubled the ginger. Will stick with GingerSnaps instead. Kudos to those of you who like this recipe tho!
Have always loved these cookies and make them for Christmas each year. I take a can of cream cheese frosting (tint 1/2 with green and 1/2 with red food coloring) and then frost the cookies. MMMMMM
These cookies are GREAT!!! They almost melt in you mouth. For Christmas, I made a frosting with butter and confectioners sugar and vanilla. I frosted the cookies and put sprinkles on them. Wonderful.