Easy Gingersnap Cookies
The best, easy crispy gingersnap cookies recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Full of spices like cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves and covered in semisweet chocolate.
Servings: 30 Cookies
Calories: 197kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup Brown sugar
- ¾ cup Butter Unsalted, Room temperature
- ½ cup Molasses Unsulphered
- 1 Egg Large
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- 3 cups All-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking soda
- 2.5 teaspoon Ginger powder Can replace with freshly ground ginger
- 2 teaspoon Cinnamon powder
- ¼ teaspoon Ground cloves
- ¼ teaspoon Nutmeg powder
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
- 2 cups Chocolate Semisweet or white, Melted
- 3 tablespoon Sprinkles For topping
Instructions
- In large mixing bowl, cream together brown sugar and butter until light and fluffy.
- Add molasses, egg, vanilla extract and mix until smooth.
- Add flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, salt.
- Mix until just combined.
- Use your hands to shape crumbly mixture into a rough ball of dough. If dough is too dry and crumbly, add a splash of milk or water. If dough is too wet, mix in some more flour.
- Cover and chill dough in fridge for 1 hour to firm it up slightly and make it easier to handle.
- Roll out this dough between two sheets of wax paper to a thickness of a quarter inch.
- Use a star cutter to cut out cookie shapes.
- Place them on a cookie tray, lined with parchment paper.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for about 10 minutes or until edges are firm and center is slightly soft.
- Remove tray from oven and allow cookies to cool completely. Don't try to remove cookies from the baking tray or else they will break plus the residual heat from the baking tray continues to cook them further and makes the cookies firmer.
- Once the cookies come to room temperature, dip each of them in a bowl of melted chocolate.
- Place them on a tray, lined with wax paper.
- Toss some sprinkles on top.
- Allow chocolate to set at room temperature and enjoy!
Notes
- Read all my tips above.
- Leftovers can be stored in a cookie jar at room temperature for up to 3 days.
Nutrition
Calories: 197kcal | Carbohydrates: 29g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 18mg | Sodium: 105mg | Potassium: 146mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 150IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 26mg | Iron: 1mg