Taste like Christmas, these perfectly chewy ginger snaps cookies will be a great addition to your cookie platter this year. Consider yourself covered for this holiday season. These festive Christmas ginger snaps cooking are famous for ginger molasses flavor, crispy on the outside and soft in the middle. No doubt, these cookies are famous all year round but most favorite and demanded during the holiday season. These are easy to make and incredibly delicious. With great texture and perfect balance of sweet and spice, these cookies are going to be your favorite. The recipe for ginger snaps has been followed and used for 100s of years which makes them even more special.
Few things that you need to be careful about are always measure the flour correctly because it is one the most common mistakes. Use a scale for measurement and use a knife to level off the top. Second thing is you can flatten the cookie dough before baking on baking sheet if you like having thinner cookies. Use fresh garlic for perfect flavor.
Its cookie time!!
Enjoy with tea or hot chocolate.
Preparation time: 10 minutes Cook time: 12 minutes Total time: 22 minutes
Ingredients:
- 2 cups pastry flour
- 1 1/2 cup white sugar divided
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 1 large egg
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp ginger
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions:
- In a large bowl mix oil and 1 cup sugar. Mix until well combined.
- In to the same bowl add egg and molasses and mix until the mixture is thickened.
- stir in flour through a large sieve over a bowl and also add baking soda, spices and salt and shift into egg-molasses batter.
- Mix the flour mixture into molasses batter with fork or spatula until it is well combined.
- Place batter in the fridge for 1 hour and let it set.
- Meanwhile preheat the oven to 350F.
- After 1 hour take the out of fridge and roll batter into 1 inch balls and then roll in remaining 1/2 cup sugar to lightly coat the balls
