Lara's Tender Gingersnaps Recipe

Lara's Tender Gingersnaps Recipe Lara's Tender Gingersnaps Recipe photo by Taste of Home Rating 5

Soft gingersnaps embody the tastes and smells of the season. Enjoy cloves, cinnamon and ginger blended into one delicious cookie. These are perfect for Thanksgiving and fall gatherings. —Lara Pennell, Mauldin, South Carolina

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Lara's Tender Gingersnaps Recipe
  • Prep: 15 min. + chilling Bake: 10 min./batch
  • Yield: 36 Servings
15 10 25

Ingredients

  • 1 cup packed brown sugar
  • 3/4 cup butter, melted
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 cup molasses
  • 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1-1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 1/4 cup sugar

Directions

  • In a large bowl, beat brown sugar and butter until blended. Beat in egg and molasses. Combine the flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon and cloves; gradually add to brown sugar mixture and mix well (dough will be stiff). Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
  • Shape dough into 1 in. balls. Roll in sugar. Place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets.
  • Bake at 350° for 9-11 minutes or until set. Cool for 1 minute before removing from pans to wire racks. Yield: 3 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 1 cookie equals 99 calories, 4 g fat (2 g saturated fat), 16 mg cholesterol, 67 mg sodium, 15 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 1 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1 starch, 1/2 fat.

Originally published as Lara's Tender Gingersnaps in Taste of Home October/November 2008

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Reviewed on Mar. 22, 2013 by topsyturvey@xplornet.ca

Just made a double batch. A really nice light cookie. Will be making this again for sure. Thanks. I make cookies every Friday to take to work for the weekend during the tourist season as I live out in the boonies and am an interpreter for Nature Conservancy of Canada on their property that adjoins our ranch and have coffee and cookies ready for our tourists. So always on the lookout for extra special cookie recipes - this will be one of them.

Reviewed on Jan. 28, 2013 by tillytootles

I bake alot and these had to be the worst cookies I have ever baked. They looked nothing like the photo and they were so hard - you would have broke a tooth off if you tried to eat one. They never flatten out like the photo - they just stayed in a 1 inch ball - I even tried to make their larger and cut down on the bakng time - nothing helped - they truely were the most awful cookies I have ever tried to make. I make everything from scratch - but this recipe is one to take the cake - not worth getting your mixer out to make!!! BAD BAD!!

Reviewed on Dec. 31, 2012 by Smon

These things were hard as bullets. I wondered when I saw how much flour was involved compared to the liquid ingredients. The taste is fine, but the "snap" is from your teeth breaking off

Reviewed on Oct. 04, 2012 by IslandWife

These were delicious! Thanks for sharing!

Reviewed on Mar. 18, 2012 by yupyup02

Made many batches and is now a family favorite and everyone asks for more!

Excellent recipe and so easy too, works for those of us with diabetes since I use Splenda brown sugar and Splenda for baking. They both work wonderful with this recipe, no one knows it is partly sugarfree unless I tell them. :)

Reviewed on Feb. 01, 2012 by mcjaeger68

I love gingersnaps! My cookies also need to be tender so I have two great things in one when I make these cookies. Thank you Lara!

Reviewed on Dec. 18, 2011 by ronalynn

These are very, very good! I made these a long with several very good homemade candies for Christmas. These won out over all the other goodies.

Reviewed on Dec. 10, 2011 by MissAlys22

These are soft and delicious! So easy to make too. This is the first "from scratch" recipe that I've made and they are such a treat!

Reviewed on Dec. 03, 2011 by whitelilies

I loved ginger snaps when I was growing up, so when I saw this recipe, I got excited. These cookies are soooooooo delicious! I'll probably need to bake another batch since I'm eating so many of them.

Reviewed on Nov. 30, 2011 by JLS08

My whole family loves these cookies. Especially my toddlers! A great addition to our Christmas cookie list.

 
 

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