Gingerbread Crinkle Cookies – Dessert for Two

18 de December de 2025

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If delicate, spicy cookies are your love language (like me!), you then’re going to need to make these, stat. These Gingerbread Crinkle Cookies are delicate, chewy and filled with the correct quantity of spice.

Stack of gingerbread crinkle cookies with glass of cinnamon sticks in background.

That is the kind of cookie recipe the place I want I may hand you one by way of the display screen as you learn. If baking with gingerbread spices is the very first thing you do when the vacation season hits, please contemplate baking these delicate, chewy little spice cookies.

My recipe requires a borderline obscene quantity of spices (and to be trustworthy, I’ll most likely double it once I make them once more for Santa), as a result of there actually isn’t any restrict for cinnamon, ginger, and cloves for me.

Vertical image of cracked gingerbread cookies dusted with powdered sugar.

The feel is ideal, the recipe is straightforward (however don’t skip that chill time), and the spice simply hit. You need to add these to your vacation rotation.

Should you like crinkle cookies, don’t miss my purple velvet crinkle cookies from this yr, too!

Substances

Small bowls of brown sugar, molasses, spices, and eggs on marble counter.

Butter. One stick/ one-half cup of unsalted butter that has been softening at room temperature for about 30-60 minutes.
Brown Sugar. One cup (220 grams) of packed brown sugar. This may be darkish or mild brown sugar–no matter you may have in your pantry is ok.
Molasses. One-quarter cup of molasses. Don’t use blackstrap molasses–it has a bizarre savory ham-like taste. Use the baking molasses (the one with the grandma on it!)
Eggs. Two giant eggs.
Flour. Two and 1/3 cups (292 grams whole) of all-purpose flour.
Baking Powder. One and a half teaspoons (additionally the identical as one-half tablespoon) of baking powder.
Baking Soda. One-half teaspoon of baking soda.
Cinnamon. Two full teaspoons of floor cinnamon (a Ceylon cinnamon is good if in case you have it).
Ginger. To convey all of the ginger taste to those gingerbread crinkle cookies, we’d like one full tablespoon of floor ginger. I didn’t check this recipe with recent ginger. As a result of dried spices are stronger and concentrated than recent, the quantity of recent ginger you would need to use right here would convey an excessive amount of moisture to the cookie.
Cloves. One teaspoon of floor cloves. I hope you may have some leftover from making my mini pumpkin pies!
Salt. One-half teaspoon of high quality sea salt.
Powdered Sugar. Simply earlier than baking, roll these cookies in 2/3 cup of powdered sugar very generously. If the powdered sugar is your favourite a part of the cookie, you then may need to roll it in granulated sugar earlier than powdered sugar, simply to assist it stick. It’s elective, although!

The right way to Make Gingerbread Crinkle Cookies

First, cream the butter, brown sugar and molasses till mild and fluffy, about 1 minute.

Add each eggs, and beat till well-mixed.

Subsequent, evenly sprinkle the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and salt on high. Combine the whole lot collectively (the dough will probably be stiff), and place within the fridge to relax for two hours.

After the two hour chill time, preheat the oven to 350F. Use a cookie scoop to make a dough ball from 2 tablespoons of dough. Roll it generously in powdered sugar, after which place on the baking sheet. Bake for 13-14 minutes.

Horizontal image of crackled ginger crinkle cookies on a wire rack.

Storage/ Make Forward Suggestions:

As a result of this gingerbread crinkle cookies recipe requires a 2-hour chill time, you’ll be able to completely stretch that and make these cookies 2-3 days upfront. Retailer the dough within the fridge till you’re able to bake. They scoop best once they’re chilly, so scoop a check cookie–if it scoops simply, it’s thawed sufficient to bake! It’s also possible to retailer the dough within the freezer till able to scoop and bake. Defrost in a single day earlier than trying to scoop, nevertheless. And eventually, sure you’ll be able to freeze already-scooped balls of dough. Allow them to thaw on the cookie sheet whereas the oven preheats, and bake as regular.
The already-baked gingerbread crinkle cookies hold nicely on the counter in hermetic containers with a slice of recent bread within the container to maintain them delicate. They may final for 3-4 days like this. Past that, refrigerate or freeze them.

Two brown crackly treats with one bite missing from one.

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