Gingerbread Play Dough Recipe

This is a great adaption for the holidays! This playdough recipe smells like freshly baked gingerbread cookies. If you want a playdough recipe that you can eat, try our peanut butter playdough recipe, it’s actually really tasty!

Gingerbread Playdough Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 Cup of flour
• 1/2 Cup of salt
• 2 teaspoons of cream of tartar
• 1 cup of water
• 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil
• Spices: Cinnamon, Allspice, Ginger, Nutmeg

Directions:

• Mix all the dry ingredients together.
• Add small amounts the spices you prepared to the mix until the scent is satisfactory.
• Mix water and oil in a separate bowl.
• Mix together both bowls into a large pan.
• It needs to cook for two to three minutes, or until it is dough-like.
• Enjoy the great scent in your whole house.

This is another really simple playdough recipe, and the scent it leaves is just amazing, you definately have to try it!

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Extended directions for Gingerbread Playdough Recipe

Let’s dig into how to make that delightfully scented playdough. You can basically use whatever spice you want to, I used ginger this time.

Step 1:

We need the ingredients, so let’s collect them. We have some ginger, flour, salt, cream of tartar, water and oil. The water is already mixed with the oil.

Step 2:

Mix the dry ingredients in a pan. It should look like this.

Step 3:

Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients, like this.

Step 4:

Stir it together until all lumps are gone. The texture should be smooth, like this.

Step 5:

Start cooking the mixture on medium heat, while stiring. After a minute or so the texture will become more solid.

Step 6:

After 3 minutes or so the playdough will be all finished. It usually looks like this.

Step 7:

In the end we have the finished playdough. I went for natural, color free look this time. It goes well with the ginger scent.

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