Greetings food adventurers! It’s time for the Feast of Winter Veil on Azeroth, and that means a visit by Greatfather Winter! His favorite snack is a stack of gingerbread cookies shaped like the pine trees surrounding Ironforge, served with a cold glass of milk. Now you can bring the recipe home and make them for your family too!

The holiday season in Ironforge is a fun and festive time. Bring out your mechanical greench toys, put on your gaudiest winter sweater, and join the crowd for caroling. We might all take portals to the various capital cities around Azeroth for a world tour (sure to be full of chaos). Red or green holiday outfits are seen everywhere, complete with fur-lined hats. The sound of jingle bells echoes on the high stone ceilings of the Dwarven city inside the mountains. In addition to the usual sulfur (from the lava) and metal-working, the scents of fruitcake and cookies are a pleasant greeting upon arriving. You can also take a flying sleigh ride around the city or be weightless and fly through the air inside the magical snow-globe. Head outside for a snowball fight, then back to the inn for hot chocolate (or cold milk) and gingerbread cookies.

I love this Pie Spice from Penzey’s Spices (not sponsored, I just love their stuff), or if you have extra Azeroth Holiday Spices that is perfect in these cookies too.

Recipe adapted from World of Warcraft: The Official Cookbook.

Bonus points: This recipe works for gingerbread houses too! One batch makes enough for a small gingerbread house.

(I don’t have a go-to recipe for the royal icing; I usually get a “just add water” mix – making things easier on yourself is always okay, especially during the holidays!)

Greatfather Winter’s Gingerbread Cookies

Spiced gingerbread cookies, perfect for the Feast of Winter Veil or other winter holidays.

5 from 1 vote

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Course Dessert

Makes 24 cookies

Special Equipment

• Tree-shaped cookie cutter
• Cookie sheet / baking sheet
• Piping bags for royal icing (or a ziplock bag with a corner cut off)

Ingredients

  

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• ½ cup butter
• ¾ cup brown sugar (packed)
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp freshly grated ginger
• 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice or your favorite holiday spice blend
• 1 tsp vanilla
• ¼ cup molasses
• 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ⅛ tsp table salt (only if using unsalted butter)
• Green and White Royal Icing (optional, for decorating)

Instructions

 

• In a medium bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth.
• Add the egg, spices, and vanilla. Mix well.
• Mix in the molasses.
• IN A SEPARATE MEDIUM BOWL, mix together the flour, baking soda, and salt.
• Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, mixing until it comes together in a smooth dough.
• Roll the dough into a disc and wrap in plastic wrap. Put this in the fridge for at least an hour.

Bake Cookies:

• Heat the oven to 350 F and line a baking sheet or two with parchment paper.
• Take the dough out of the fridge and let it sit on the counter for about 10 minutes to get the chill out (just like pie crust).
• Roll dough out on a well-floured surface to about 1/4" thickness, cut into desired shapes, and place on prepared baking sheet. Bake for 11 minutes. (reduce this to 9-10 minutes if you don't want them crunchy)
• Gently smush the unused dough back into a ball, re-flour the counter if needed, and roll out again to cut the next batch. Continue until most or all of the dough is used. NOTE: Do not knead the dough more than necessary or add too much flour, it will make the cookies tough. Be gentle with it.
• Cool completely on racks before icing. The cookies will firm up as they cool – even if they seem a bit soft when straight out of the oven, they will crisp up in a few hours.

Keyword Dwarven, Feast of Winter Veil, Ironforge

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