Extremely sticky and wet, even after a whole night in the fridge. The is a little bit harder after more than 12 hours chill, literally sticks to the parchment paper. Don't quite know what I'm going to do with it. Really surprised that some of you managed to make it work perfectly. And really surprised to that noone from marthastewart.com answers the comments.

I made this recipe a couple of times with great results. The cookies could have more spice to them, but I've been making them for other people and like to keep the spice level conservative, so it wasn't a problem. To those having an issue with sticky or wet dough, I'd suggest resisting the temptation to add more flour and instead put the dough in the refrigerator or freezer for more time. The shear amount of honey/molasses would make this dough a nightmare to work with at room temperature.

I just couldn't make this recipe work. I even added an additional 2 cups of flour! I'm not sure what to do, now I have a giant ginger-bread mess.

I loved this recipe. Worked perfectly. I think the comments about dough being too soft have more to do with the type of flour giving different results than anything else. It's easy to add a wee bit more flour if you need to. I'll use this recipe all year in place of basic sugar cookie dough which can be boring and tasteless. I used wild organic honey

I'm more chef than baker so help me out please. I only have salted butter. Is that okay? Also, do I measure honey and molasses with dry or liquid measuring cups? I think they're more liquid. Also, what is molasses? It smells terrible!! Thanks for any tips or help. :-)

These cookies taste great and theyn n n n n n re not dry or hard. Theyn n n n n n re firm enough to hold and decorate. Try this simple method to work with soft dough: cut a few sheets of parchment paper to fit baking sheets. Roll chilled dough between parchment paper. Cut cookies, remove scraps, be careful not to lift the cookies. Reform scraps, and refrigerate. Lift the parchment paper -- with the cookies on it -- and place it, paper-side-down onto the baking sheet. Repeat until the cookies are cut and baked.

The dough for this recipe is way too soft, even after refrigerating overnight. I ended up kneading in about a cup of flour or more to make it workable and fortunately it turned out alright after that. I would use a different recipe next time for this project.

The template is too light to use. The recipe sounds wonderful though.