Holiday Gingersnaps

(from freeshebacchus’s recipe box)

Source: Parenting December/January 2006 (from RecipeThing user dubuisso)

Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 10 minutes

Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • 1/2 tsp ground cloves
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1/3 cup molasses
  • Cinnamon sugar: 1/2 cup sugar mixed with 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

  2. Lightly grease 2 baking sheets.

  3. Combine flour, spices, salt and baking soda in a bowl.

  4. In a large bowl, beat butter with sugar and egg at medium speed 2 minutes, until fluffy.

  5. Add molasses; beat 1 minute.

  6. Slowly add flour mixture; beat to combine.

  7. Using a rounded teaspoon for each cookie, roll dough into balls, then roll each in cinnamon sugar and place on baking sheets.

  8. Bake 10 minutes or until cookies are golden and crisp.

  9. Cool 1 minute, then transfer to wire racks to finish cooking.

  10. Makes 5 dozen.

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