The best cookies that you will ever have are these chewy ginger cookies. They are exactly as their name claims them to be, chewy and ginger. You will love these cookies either as a great snack or equally fantastic desert. The best part about these cookies is that once you understand the recipe, you can easily expand upon it to make the cookies as big as you want them to be. You can even add extra ingredients to make them taste just the way you want to.
Ingredients
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
4 tsps ground ginger
2 tsps baking soda
2 tsps ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground allspice
1 cup white sugar
3/4 cup butter – softened
1 egg
1/4 cup dark molasses
1/3 cup crystallized ginger – chopped
How To Make Chewy Ginger Cookies
- Preheat oven to 175°
- Sift the flour, salt, allspice, ground ginger, baking soda, and cinnamon together into a mixing bowl then stir thoroughly.
- Beat the sugar and butter together in a large bowl using an electric mixer until the mixture turns smooth and creamy.
- Beat the egg and molasses into the creamed butter mixture.
- Gradually stir flour mixture into the butter mixture just before they come together into a batter.
- Gently fold crystallized ginger into the batter.
- Roll rounded teaspoon-sized amounts of dough between your hands into small balls and place the balls on the ungreased baking sheets about 2 inches apart.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the tops are rounded and slightly cracked, about 10 minutes.
- Cool cookies on baking sheets for 1 minute before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Trivia
Ginger possesses gingerol, which is a powerful substance that contains medicinal properties.