{"id":170537,"date":"2022-12-16T12:30:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T22:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=170537"},"modified":"2022-12-15T12:28:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T22:28:50","slug":"uh-mazing-holiday-recipes-gingerbread-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/12\/16\/uh-mazing-holiday-recipes-gingerbread-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"UH-mazing holiday recipes: Michele Ebersole\u2019s mom\u2019s gingerbread cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/hilo-gingerbread-cookies.jpg\" alt=\"Gingerbread cookies\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-170538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/hilo-gingerbread-cookies.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/hilo-gingerbread-cookies-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/hilo-gingerbread-cookies-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The holiday season is here, and <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> News is asking members of the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> <span aria-label=\"ohana\">&#699;ohana<\/span> to share their favorite recipes. The hope is these recipes and the short stories that accompany them will give everyone some recipe ideas for the holidays.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michele Ebersole<\/strong>, a professor of education at <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo, submitted her mom\u2019s recipe for gingerbread cookies.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is the recipe that my mom used for many years to make gingerbread cookies for her kindergarten class,&rdquo; Ebersole said. &ldquo;She still continues to make us cookies each year, even if she\u2019s been retired for over 20 years.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Ingredients<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_170540\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170540\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/hilo-gingerbread-ebersole.jpg\" alt=\"Ebersole decorating cookies on a pan with a Christmas tree in the background\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-170540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/hilo-gingerbread-ebersole.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/hilo-gingerbread-ebersole-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/hilo-gingerbread-ebersole-93x130.jpg 93w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michele Ebersole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>1 &#8539; <abbr title=\"cup\">c<\/abbr>. butter<\/li>\n<li>1 &#189; <abbr>c<\/abbr>. sugar<\/li>\n<li>2 eggs<\/li>\n<li>&#189; <abbr>c<\/abbr>. molasses<\/li>\n<li>5 &#188; <abbr>c<\/abbr>. flour<\/li>\n<li>1 <abbr title=\"teaspoon\">t<\/abbr>. baking soda<\/li>\n<li>1 <abbr>t<\/abbr>. baking powder<\/li>\n<li>&#189; <abbr>t<\/abbr>. salt<\/li>\n<li>2 <abbr>t<\/abbr>. cinnamon<\/li>\n<li>&#189;  <abbr>t<\/abbr>. ground cloves<\/li>\n<li>1 &#189; <abbr>t<\/abbr>. ground ginger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Directions<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"blocklink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/uh-holiday-recipes\/\">See more <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr>-mazing holiday recipes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs and molasses. Mix well.<\/p>\n<p>Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ground cloves and ground ginger.<\/p>\n<p>Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture, stirring until well blended. If the dough is too soft, add more flour.<\/p>\n<p>Sprinkle flour on waxed paper or parchment paper. Separate dough into 3 or 4 different balls.  Roll dough using a rolling pin until it is about &#188; inch thick.<\/p>\n<p>Use cookie cutters to shape as desired and place on a baking pan.<\/p>\n<p>Decorate with raisins, decor or confetti.<\/p>\n<p>Bake at 375 degrees for 10&#8211;12 minutes, or at 335 degrees for 30&#8211;35 minutes for crunchier cookies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa professor Michele Ebersole shared her mom\u2019s recipe for gingerbread cookies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[14,1571],"class_list":["post-170537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-holiday-recipes","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170543,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170537\/revisions\/170543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}