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Chewy Ginger Cookies

Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Baked

Tags: baking, easy, featured, kid-friendly, recipes for cookies, recipes using butter, recipes using ground ginger, recipes using molasses, recipes with images, recipes with metric units, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AChewy_Ginger_Cookies)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AChewy%20Ginger%20Cookies&oldid=4516809

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

180 g (¾ cup) butter, softened
500 g (2 cups) brown sugar
1 egg
60 ml (¼ cup) molasses
10 g (2 tsp) baking soda
600 g (2½ cups) flour
2.5 g (½ tsp) ground cinnamon
5 g (1 tsp) ground ginger
5 g (1 tsp) ground cloves
2.5 g (½ tsp) salt
Extra sugar for coating

Directions

Preheat oven to 175°C (350°F or Gas Mark 4).
Cream the butter and the sugar in a stand mixer or with an electric whisk.
Beat in the egg, and stir in the molasses.
Combine the baking soda, flour, spices, and salt in a separate bowl.
Gently mix the dry mixture into the wet mixture to make a dough.
Shape into small (2.5 cm/1 inch diameter) balls and roll in granulated sugar.
Place on greased cookie sheet. Do not flatten balls. They will spread out a little bit during baking, so space them about 1.5–2 inches apart.
Bake for about 11 minutes. One way to tell they are done is when the cookies are cracked but the dough inside the cracks doesn't look quite finished. Beyond that they will be too done.
Remove pan from the oven and cool to room temperature.

Equipment

Cookie sheet, greased with butter or oil, Oven, Mixer, with bowl if necessary