Gingerbread cookies

3/4 C butter softened
1 C white sugar
1 large egg beaten
3 TBS molasses
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp nutmeg
2 C flour

Pre-heat oven to 350.
Mix butter and sugar till light and fluffy.  Mix in beaten egg.  Add molasses and stir until the mix is uniform in colour.  Add the baking soda and salt and stir well.  Sprinkle in spices.  Stir thoroughly. Stir flour in 1 cup at a time.
Roll out, cut out shapes, but on cookie sheet and bake for 10 mins.
Let cool then decorate.

(This is suppose to be a frosted ginger cookies recipe that I changed to make into gingerbread men, so the batter was a little soft to roll out.  I used a bit more flour to get it sturdier so I could roll it out and cut out.  If you want the rest of the recipe it's just making the batter into balls and rolling them in some white sugar then placing them on a cookie sheet and baking for 10 mins.  When they're cooled you can put on a glaze which is just 1C of powdered sugar and 1tsp of lemon juice.  So that part is up to you.)