Soft Chewy Ginger Ginger Molasses Cookies

Soft and chewy ginger molasses cookies. Slightly crisp on the outside, fantastic chewiness in the middle, with lots of ginger. Did I mention ginger? Very simple to make, with minimal steps, but maximum results

Ingredients:

3/4 cup butter, softened (170 g, room termperature)

1 cup sugar (100g)

1 large egg, room temperature

1/4 cup molasses (80g - much easier to measure by weight)

2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour( 320g)

4 teaspoons ground ginger (4tsp - I like ginger, so i used this amount, you can always half this amount if you are less of a fan of ginger than I am)

2 teaspoon baking soda

3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 

1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

1/4 teaspoon salt

Additional sugar (for topping dough balls before baking)

Materials:

Kitchen scale - makes measuring ingredients much easier

Large mixing bowl

Medium mixing bowl

Electric Hand Mixer

Rubber Spatula

Measuring Spoons

Baking Sheet

Parchment Paper

Oven (350 degrees)

With the electric mixer, cream together the very softened butter with sugar, until light and fluffy.

Once fluffy, add the molasses and egg, and mix until combined. [butter molasses sugar egg mixture]

In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, ginger, cloves, cinnamon. [flour mixture]

With a rubber spatula, mix together the [butter-sugar-molasses-egg mixture] with the [flour mixture], until well combined, flour absorbed, uniform mixture

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. ( I work slow, I find preheating oven at this step is good enough for my oven. If your oven takes longer, turn it on earlier)

Divide into dough balls. I made 24 cookies with this recipe. Approximately 30g, or 3.5cm or 1-1/4" dough balls. Put a sprinkle of sugar on a plate and press top of dough ball onto sugary plate.

Space them about 5 cm/2inches apart so they have room to spread

Bake for 10-12 minutes, until lightly golden brown.

Let cool a bit, and enjoy! They are softer when warm, and gets a bit chewier when cool. Both tasty! Extra gingery!

Store in an airtight container after they have cooled completely.