• Make dough. Mix all the dry ingredients.
  2 Cup Whole Wheat flour, 1 tsp Cinnamon Powder, ½ tsp Ginger Powder, ¼ tsp Cloves Powder, 1 tsp Baking Powder, ½ Baking Soda, ¼ tsp Salt
• Cream together butter and sugar to light and creamy mixture.
  3/4 cup Soft Butter, ½ cup Brown Sugar
• Then add dry ingredients, molasses, vanilla in creamed butter and make a soft dough. Add milk about 3-4 tbsp or as required.
  4-5 tbsp Molasses, 1/4 cup Milk, 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
• Chill the dough. Keep the dough to chill for about 45 mins-1 hr. The dough is a bit sticky so let it sit /rest for some time.
• Roll the dough and cut into shapes using molds.
• The dough will be sticky, roll it in between the parchment paper.
• Cut the shapes as per the occasion like Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving or even Deepawali and Holi (for my readers from India). Or, simply roll small portions to bake.
• Preheat oven to 350°F/180C, line on a baking tray with parchment paper and bake for about 7-8 mins or until the edges look slightly set.

Make Icing

• Mix icing sugar with 1-2 tbsp water. Mix and make icing.
• Fill in the piping bag.
• Decorate the cookies. Cool completely decorate with icing. Add color to the icing or chocolate (gel color) to perk up the festive look of the cookies.