However, light molasses will work just as well if you’d prefer a lighter cookie with tamer flavors and a little more chewiness. Can you use this recipe to make a gingerbread house from scratch?

While gingerbread house kits are common, we went all out and made gingerbread and icing from scratch. We used two ... and one for a softer, tastier cookie that we hoped wouldn’t chip our teeth.

I've become familiar with the myriad failures that are possible when it comes to baking from scratch ... I tried my hand at gingerbread cookies for the first time. For consistency, I used the ...