How To Make Crispy Ginger Cookies
These ginger cookies perfectly balance their blend of cinnamon, cloves, and black pepper spices, and yields a buttery cookie with a crisp crust!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2⅓cupsall purpose flour,spooned into measuring cup, leveled-off
- 2tspground ginger
- ½tspground allspice
- 1tspground cinnamon
- ¼tspground cloves
- 2tspbaking soda
- ¼tspsalt
- pinchfreshly ground black pepper
- 1cupgranulated sugar,divided
- ½cuplight brown sugar,packed
- 1cupunsalted butter,(2 sticks), softened but still cool
- 1large egg
- ⅓cupmolasses
Instructions
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In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, ginger, allspice, cinnamon, cloves, baking soda, salt, and pepper. Set aside.
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Using an electric mixer, beat ½ cup of the granulated sugar, brown sugar and butter for about 3 to 5 minutes, until light and fluffy, scraping down the sides of the bowl as necessary.
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Add the egg and beat for about 20 seconds, then scrape down the sides of the bowl; add the molasses, mix well and scrape down the sides of the bowl again.
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Add the dry ingredients, then mix on low speed until just incorporated. Do not over mix. The dough will be very soft.
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Refrigerate it for about 1 hour, or until firm enough to roll.
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Set rack in the middle of the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
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Place the remaining ½ cup granulated sugar in a shallow bowl. Form the dough into 1-inch balls and roll in the sugar to coat.
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Place the balls on the prepared baking sheet about 2 inches apart, then flatten slightly using fingers.
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Bake for 10 to 14 minutes, until set and golden on the outside and slightly soft on the inside.
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Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely. Refrigerate the dough between batches.
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Serve and enjoy!
Recipe Notes
The cookies will keep for several days in an airtight container.
Nutrition
- Calories: 115.72kcal
- Fat: 5.34g
- Saturated Fat: 3.30g
- Trans Fat: 0.21g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 1.39g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.26g
- Carbohydrates: 16.27g
- Fiber: 0.30g
- Sugar: 9.87g
- Protein: 1.09g
- Cholesterol: 18.72mg
- Sodium: 74.63mg
- Calcium: 13.09mg
- Potassium: 63.70mg
- Iron: 0.60mg
- Vitamin A: 45.40µg
- Vitamin C: 0.01mg
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