The Best Soft and Chewy Ginger Cookie Recipe
One of our favourite family Christmas recipes, these soft and chewy ginger cookies are the best ones I’ve ever tasted!
Do you have a cookie recipe in your family that you look forward to each holiday season? When you think of Christmas baking, it’s the one that immediately comes to mind and you can’t wait to bake some each year. My favourite for the past several years has been these delicious soft and chewy ginger cookies.
I first got this recipe from a family friend of my husband’s family a few years after we were married and it’s become our family tradition over the past several Christmas’. This year, my youngest son helped me bake these delicious morsels and I have a feeling that we’ll be needing to whip up another batch before the big day actually arrives. These are truly the best soft and chewy ginger cookies that I’ve ever had, and a wonderful addition to your family holiday baking repertoire this coming season.
Today I’ve joined a group of friends who are also sharing their very favourite Christmas cookie recipes with us, so be sure to check out their posts at the bottom of the page!
The key to ensuring that these soft and chew ginger cookies stay soft and chewy and don’t become hard or dry is not over-baking them (or under baking them!).
I make sure to roll my cookie ‘balls’ to very close to a 1.5″ diameter, and then I space them out evenly so that they don’t run into each while baking. I also make sure to set my timer for 10 minutes and check them right away. They will continue to cook briefly after removing from the oven, but you also don’t want them to be too large or to under-bake them, either.
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I let them cool on the countertop and then place them in a sealed container or ziplock bag to ensure they stay soft and chewy.
My boys can’t keep their hands off them! They are slightly spicy and gingery but not overwhelming in flavour at all; the spices are really beautifully balanced in these cookies. And, the recipe makes about 48 cookies!
I hope that you enjoy these as much as we do. Let me know how they turn out for you! Leave me a comment below.
Soft Chewy Ginger Cookies
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 2/3 cup molasses
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp ginger
- 1 tsp clove
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 3 tsp baking soda
- 4.5 cups flour
Instructions
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Mix the butter and sugar in a mixer. Add the eggs and molasses and blend.
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Mix all dry ingredients together.
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Slowly add the dry ingredients and blend in the mixer until thoroughly blended.
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Refrigerate dough for 1-2 hours, or overnight.
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Preheat the oven to 350F and add parchment to a large cookie sheet.
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Roll the cookie dough into 1.5" balls and place, separated, on the baking sheet.
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Bake for 10-11 minutes, watching carefully. Make sure not to overbake.
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As I mentioned, some of my friends are sharing their very favourite Christmas cookie recipes with us today, as well! You can visit their posts by clicking on the links below each collage.
14 Christmas Cookie Recipes
Classic Sugar Cookies For Christmas // My 100 Year Old Home
Christmas Cookie Hack // My Sweet Savannah
Mexican Christmas Cookies // Just Destiny
Salted Butterscotch Shortbread // Life Is Better At Home
Stained Glass Sugar Cookies // Paint Me Pink
Chocolate Peppermint Crunch Cookies // Maison de Cinq
The Yummiest Oreo Cookies and Cream Cookies // Twelve On Main
Hanging Mug Topper Cookies // Happy Happy Nester
Italian Christmas Cookies // Inspiration For Moms
Anzac Biscuit Cookies // Finding Lovely
How to Make Easy, Mild Gingerbread Cookies (no molasses!) // The DIY Mommy
The Best Ginger Molasses Cookies // Modern Glam
The Best Soft and Chewy Ginger Cookies // The Happy Housie
Orange Glazed Sugar Cookies // Sincerely, Marie
How much ginger in this recipe? You have it listed twice…..
Just the two tsp! Enjoy
Is the ginger really added twice? Sorry – want to be sure I make these correctly…
No, just the once (2 tsp total). I’m sorry, I had a technical glitch and my recipe erased on me after I published the post so I quickly rewrote it and obviously made a couple mistakes. I’ve gone and double checked it all now and it is now correct!
How many eggs?????
Three eggs, Lisa! Sorry about that!
Yum! I can almost smell the spices! This cookie looks so soft and chewy, just the way I like them! Thanks for sharing the recipe sweet friend! Merry Christmas!