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***UPDATED: November 2024***
These delicious, Soft and Chewy Gingersnap Cookies are a warm, spiced hug in every bite! Perfectly soft in the center, they’re bursting with the cozy flavors of molasses, ginger, cinnamon, and cloves. Rolled in cinnamon sugar before baking, the cookies develop a delicate crackled top that glistens with sweetness. They’re a holiday classic but so good you’ll want to bake them all year round. Pair them with a cup of tea or hot cocoa for the ultimate comforting treat, or share them as a crowd-pleasing dessert at any gathering. These cookies are nostalgia and flavor wrapped up in one perfect bite!
These delicious, Soft and Chewy Gingersnap Cookies are a warm, spiced hug in every bite! Perfectly soft in the center, they’re bursting with the cozy flavors of molasses, ginger, cinnamon, and cloves. Rolled in cinnamon sugar before baking, the cookies develop a delicate crackled top that glistens with sweetness. They’re a holiday classic but so good you’ll want to bake them all year round. Pair them with a cup of tea or hot cocoa for the ultimate comforting treat, or share them as a crowd-pleasing dessert at any gathering. These cookies are nostalgia and flavor wrapped up in one perfect bite!
This recipe has been living and breathing on my site for more than a decade. I’ve updated it today with fresh pictures, instructions and a few changes to the original recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 C sugar
- 2/3 C butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 1/2 C molasses
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3 1/2 C flour
- 1/4 tsp cloves
- 2 1/2 tsp ginger
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- COATING:
- 1/4 C sugar
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees (or 335 degrees for convection ovens).
- Add the sugar and butter to your stand mixer or large mixing bowl. Beat on medium speed for 1-2 minutes. Add the egg and beat for an additional 3 minutes, or until light and fluffy.
- Add the molasses and mix until combined, scraping down the side of the bowl with a rubber spatula when needed. Add the vanilla and mix until combined.
- Into the mixer place the flour, cloves, ginger, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Toss these dry ingredients around a bit with a fork to make sure they get incoporated with each other. Then turn on the mixer and allow it to mix until all the ingredients are incorporated.
- Place the coating ingredients into a small bowl and toss them together to combine.
- Scoop the dough into balls and roll them into the cinnamon sugar coating.
- Line your baking sheets with parchments paper (or spray with cooking spray) and place 9 dough balls to a sheet.
- Bake each sheet for 9-10 minutes, or until the tops have started to crack. Don't over bake.
- Remove the pan from the oven and allow the cookies to rest on the hot baking sheet for 5 minutes or so. They will continue to cook on the sheets.
Enjoy!
Recipe adapted from my sister in law Erin Jepsen
my family would LOVE these, thanks for sharing, anne
Thank you for this recipe, I think I will be trying it today. Love you blog, have gotten so many good recipes and I always recommend your blog. Renee'
I made these for my RS cookie exchange and we loved them. Thanks so much.
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I just want to say I can NOT believe there aren't more replies to this recipe!! My idea of a perfect cookie is one that is soft, almost gooey and undercooked, in the center and these are PERFECT!!!! I made these cookies about 4 days ago and they're still irresistably soft. I'm usually a pretty restrained eater, but these are dangerous for my waist line.
Thank you so much for posting this recipe! All the recipes I've every tried from your site have turned out AMAZING!!
These are delicious, I love them.
Your recipes are my family’s favorites!! So delicious! So easy to follow with the photos! THANK YOU for all of the time and effort you give to your family AND to each of ours!