Today on Sugar Spun Run I'll be showing you how to make soft and chewy gingersnap cookies.
Hey everyone! Sam here and today I am sharing a soft
and chewy gingersnap cookie recipe. Now this recipe is by request. I personally
have always felt that gingersnaps should be snappy. They should be crisp and if
you break them in half they should have a nice snap to them. I mean that's why
they're called ginger snaps after all. Right? However, a lot of you have
indicated that you would like both a snappy gingersnap cookie and a soft and
chewy one. So today I have a soft and chewy version to share with you. This
recipe is pretty easy. So let's go ahead and get started by preheating our oven
to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Next you are going to need 3/4 cup of unsalted butter.
You want this to be softened to room temperature and we're gonna add it to a large bowl.
Along with a butter we're going to add 1/2 cup each of granulated sugar,
and firmly packed dark brown sugar.
Use an electric mixer to beat these ingredients together until they're creamy and well combined.
Next, we'll add 3 tablespoons of unsulphured molasses.
Now at this point we're also going to add our vanilla extract, and our spices.
we're going to add 3/4 teaspoon of vanilla.
two and a half teaspoons of ground ginger, 3/4 teaspoon of ground cinnamon, 1/2
teaspoon of ground cloves, and we're also adding 1/8 teaspoon of a cayenne pepper.
Now I know this seems like an unusual cookie ingredient but it adds that
perfect amount of spice to our ginger snaps.
And of course we'll stir everything together.
So it should be smelling pretty good in your kitchen right about now. All
those spices. It's making me hungry. Alright we're also going to add one large egg and we'll stir this in.
I'm just gonna use my spatula now to work everything together.
Make sure it's all nicely combined. There's no ingredients that are sitting
on the bottom that haven't been nicely stirred into the dough, and then we can
set this aside and you're going to need a separate bowl for your flour. You'll
need two and 1/4 cups of all-purpose flour. Along with the flour we're going to add a teaspoon of baking powder.
3/4 teaspoon of baking soda and 3/4 teaspoon of salt.
And of course we'll stir everything together until it's nicely combined.
Now we'll stir our dry ingredients into our wet ingredients
until everything is nicely combined and we have a nice a cookie dough. I'll
usually just start by stirring everything together with my spatula and
if the dough gets too stiff, switch over to the electric mixer.
Once you have your cookie dough nicely stirred together we can go ahead and start baking these soft
and chewy ginger snaps. I like to scoop the dough by about one
and a half tablespoons each, and you'll want to roll it between your palms just
so you have a nice smooth ball of dough. Now this dough is soft. If it's too
sticky for you to manage you can pop it in the fridge for about 30 minutes, but
even though it's soft I usually don't have a problem rolling it. Once you've
rolled your cookie dough you'll just want to briefly roll it through some
granulated sugar. Now this is optional but I really love that nice little
sugary coating it gives the outside of the cookies, and then transfer your
cookies to a baking sheet, and make sure you space them at least 2 inches apart.
Now we'll take these over to our 350 degrees Fahrenheit preheated oven where
they'll need to bake for about 10 to 11 minutes. Once these cookies have finished
baking you're going to want to let them cool completely on the baking sheet
because they're still going to be really soft and fragile and a little under
baked when they first come out of the oven. They'll finish baking on the cookie
sheet and you'll have nice soft cookies when they're finished cooling.
And once they've cooled you can go ahead and dig in. I hope you guys enjoy today's easy soft
and chewy gingersnap cookie recipe and if you want to check out my snappy, and
not soft a gingersnap version make sure to look for that recipe link in the
description. If you guys try this one out I would
to know what you think and I'd love to know if you like I'm soft and chewy or
hard and snappy. Thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you next time.
mmm that's a soft cookie.