Spice cookies are some of my favorites. I love dunking them in milk, eating a few with a hot cup of coffee or tea, or gobbling them up with spiked egg nog. Growing up my mamaw would always have some gingersnaps in the icebox waiting for us to visit. These days I make them as a holiday treat for friends and family, and I'm happy to be carrying this tradition on in my own home. Along with our mounds bars from yesterday, we made these crispy delights to eat as we watched Christmas movies all Sunday evening.
Ingredients:
3/4 cup crisco or margarine
1c sugar
1 egg
1/4c molasses
1/4 tsp salt
2c flour
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp ginger
1 tsp ground clove
Directions:
1. Cream the crisco and sugar.
2. Mix in the egg and molasses, until fully combined.
3. In a separate bowl mix the dry ingredients. Then, slowly add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, until combined.
4. Chill overnight*
5. Preheat oven to 325F
6. Pinch off a portion of the gingersnap dough and form a 1" round ball.
7. Press to form a disk, and sprinkle with sugar.
8. Place on a greased cookie sheet, to bake. Cook for 10-2 minutes, do not let brown.
9. Cool and serve with your beverage of choice.
*Note: We made the dough on Saturday and baked them on Sunday.
Oohh I love gingersnaps!!! these look beautiful, too. Gingersnaps and good Christmas movies sound like the perfect Sunday evening! =)
ReplyDeleteSo yummy! I love these but have never had them homemade. There's something something so special about food that is wrapped up in traditions.
ReplyDeleteYUM! That looks so good! I'll have to try it out! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThese look amazing, I need to save this recipe for when I bake cookies next!
ReplyDeleteYUM!! these looks delicious!! I'm on a cooking baking spree right now so I can't wait to try these!!
ReplyDeleteI am so glad I found your blog. It makes me EXTREMELY happy. I just bookmarked it :)
ReplyDeleteAmazing, as always, Bekuh. I really feel like if we ever met we'd spend the day finding vintage aprons and baking in them (I have a small apron collection, by the by...that's random...whatever!) The mounds bars look yummy too - too bad my husbands terribly allergic to coconut!
ReplyDelete<3 katherine
of corgis and cocktails
There is nothing better than a good ginger snap during the holidays. Thanks so much for the recipe. I love that it's a piece of your family that you're sharing with all of us.
ReplyDeleteThese look so tasty! I just might have to start a new cookie tradition in my family! :)
ReplyDeleteThis Lovely Little Day
I don't think I've ever eaten these! I'll have to give them a shot! I love trying recipes from across the pond :)
ReplyDeleteyou are one cooking machine during the holidays! I love it!
ReplyDeletethose look soooo yummy!
ReplyDeleteSaralyn
www.studiomaisonblog.us
I can NEVER get enough of ginger snap cookies. I like to leave them out in the air so that they can get soft. :nomnom:
ReplyDeleteThese look delicious.
ReplyDeleteCan you believe I haven't had one gingersnap cookie this entire holiday season. This needs to be rectified immediately.