Ginger Spice Cookies

“Christmas will soon be here and for me that means it’s time to bake the cookies! Over the years, I have collected what I think are some really good cookie recipes. Molasses cookies were not one of them until I came upon this delicious Ginger Spice cookie recipe. With all these warm spices, this cookie takes its place deliciously on my Christmas Cookie plate and is very well received! I hope you will try it.”
– Carolyn

Prep time 30 minutes
Bake time 8-9 minutes
Calories 72 per cookie
Servings 50 cookies

Ingredients

2 1/3 cup Flour
2 teaspoons Baking Soda
1/4 teaspoon Salt
2 teaspoons ground Ginger
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon Allspice
1/4 teaspoon Cloves
1/8 teaspoon freshly ground Black Pepper
3/4 cup of unsalted Butter, at room temperature
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons White Sugar
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons Light Brown Sugar, packed
1 Egg
1/3 cup Molasses
1/2 cup Turbinado Sugar, for rolling cookies

Method

In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, allspice, cloves and black pepper.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter, white sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Beat in the egg and molasses.
Add the flour mixture and mix just until combined.
Chill the dough for several hours.
Heat oven to 350 degrees F, set racks in center of oven, and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
Form tablespoons of dough into balls and roll in the turbinado sugar to coat. Arrange balls about 2 1/2″ apart on baking sheets.
Bake 8-9 minutes. They will look soft on the top but brown on the bottom quickly.
Let them set a couple minutes on baking sheet before transferring to wire rack to cool.

Tips

Be generous when rolling the balls in the turbinado sugar. It gives the cookie a pretty sparkle and crunch.
In order to have a nice assortment of cookies and keep them tasting fresh, I freeze them just as soon as they are cooled in separate containers with couple sheets of wax paper between the layers. Label the container. When I am ready to gift a pretty tin of cookies, or serve them, I get them all out of the freezer and take a few from each container.

If you try this recipe, let me know what you think by sending me an email. I would love to hear from you!