Soft Gingerbread Cookies

Description:
I may have written about this recipe when I made them into reindeer using pretzels and M&M candies, but I wanted to have this recipe where I can easily find it, because its a family favorite around Christmas time.

For more fun, you can shape the dough into ovals and use candy and pretzels to make reindeer, but this year DH requested simple icing and DS14 said circles with M&Ms were fine. We were out of pretzels.

Ingredients:
1 C butter
1 C sugar
2/3 C molasses
2 eggs
2 t baking soda
1 t ginger
1 t nutmeg
4 C flour

M&Ms and icing to decorate

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350F

Cream butter and sugar together. Add molasses. Beat in eggs. Stir together baking soda, ginger, nutmeg and flour. Mix the dry with the wet. Form dough balls and flatten with your hand.

If using M&M's, press into the dough before baking.

Bake for 12-14 minutes