Soft & Chewy Ginger Cookies

Soft & Chewy Ginger Cookies fresh from the oven waiting just for you!  These tasty little cookies are soft, chewy and deliciously gingery.

It’s Christmas cookie baking time and I couldn’t be more excited about it.  Holiday baking is my favourite.  It doesn’t matter what’s going on around here, whether the house is a mess with laundry and all the Christmas projects I’m working on…it doesn’t even matter.  Cookie baking happens.  And really, who cares about the mess…there’s love here.  And mess.

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The first cookie that made it into our holiday cookie jar are these Soft & Chewy Ginger Cookies.  And that’s exactly what these are…soft and chewy…and so full of rich ginger flavour.  The addition of real grated ginger makes these cookies perfectly gingery.  You might want to double the batch because they’ll disappear fast!  Enjoy!

Soft & Chewy Ginger Cookies

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Soft & Chewy Ginger Cookies fresh from the oven waiting just for you!  These tasty little cookies are soft, chewy and deliciously gingery.

• Author: Jo-Anna Rooney
• Yield: 24 cookies 1x

Ingredients

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• 3/4 cup butter (at room temperature)
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup fancy molasses
• 1 1/2 tsp finely grated fresh peeled ginger
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 1 1/2 tsp ground ginger
• 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp ground cloves
• pinch salt
• 1/4 cup extra sugar for rolling

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a mixer, cream together the butter and sugar. Then add in the egg, molasses and fresh ginger.  Mix until smooth.
3. In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, ground ginger, cinnamon, cloves and salt.
4. Stir the flour mixture into the butter mixture until combined.
5. Roll the dough into 1 inch balls, and roll them in the 1/4 cup sugar, until coated.
6. Place the balls onto a parchment paper lined cookie sheet, about 2 inches apart.
7. Lightly flatten the tops using a cup.
8. Bake for about 10-12 minutes. If you like them chewy, bake them on the lesser side. When they are done you will notice that the tops will crack slightly and the edges of the cookies will appear firm, and the centres will appear slightly soft.
9. Cool on wire racks.

Keywords: Christmas cookies, ginger cookies, gingersnaps

These cookies were a big hit with my kids.  They even told me that they tasted just like the Ginger cookies at Starbucks…now that’s a compliment I tell you!

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Have a delicious day!

Note:  This post was originally published in December 2013.  I have recently updated it with new pictures…same great recipe, just new pictures!