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Give Love This Holiday with Easy Ginger Cookie Recipe

When the cold winter comes, having a glass of hot chocolate and savoring some holiday cookies by the fireplace is a nice activity for the family. One favorite cookie everyone enjoys during the holidays is ginger cookies.

In this article, we will show you how to create easy-to-do yet creative ginger cookies that you can enjoy with your family and friends this holiday season. This is perfect for a snack or dessert served with hot cocoa or a simple gift you can give.

Holiday Cookies

Holiday cookies are great additions to family dinners and celebrations especially when there are kids who would love tasty treats before, during, or after the festive meal at home. There are a variety of Christmas cookies you may serve to your family, friends, and guests such as chocolate chip cookies, choco crinkles, gingerbread, peanut butter cookies, and ginger cookies. Christmas cookies are also great gifts for kids and neighbors with simple decorations and gift wrapping.

Nutritional Content of Ginger Cookies

Ginger cookies are baked goods, and their ingredients are usually not as healthy as one might like. These cookies have 252 calories (for 2 oz. serving) and ginger cookies have high fat and sugar content.

However, ginger cookies have some nutritional value with beneficial minerals like iron and manganese. Iron plays a crucial role in energy production and keeping tissue health by helping red blood cells carry oxygen to your tissues. Manganese, on the other hand, is a mineral involved with wound healing and supports your metabolism. Ginger cookies also contain niacin in ginger cookies promotes healthy cell development, controls gene activity and aids in cell-to-cell communication.

How to Bake Easy Ginger Cookies

Whether you’re serving holiday cookies to your family or giving them out as gifts, this easy Ginger Cookie recipe can bring out the holiday cheer. The recipe features crowd favorite holiday flavors which yields 32 cookies. You can freely cut circular shapes for your cookies, or you can get creative and use a variety of mold shapes like gingerbread man, tree, star, heart, and many more.

Ingredients

5 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking soda
4 tsp. ground cinnamon
3 tsp. ground cloves
1 tsp. ground nutmeg
1 tsp. ground ginger
½ tsp. Kosher salt
2 cups dark brown sugar (lightly packed)
½ cup vegetable oil
⅔ cup unsulfured molasses
2 eggs (large, room temperature)
2 ½cups chopped crystallized ginger
granulated sugar (for rolling the cookies or dusting)
icing for finishing touches

Procedure

Step 1: Prepare your equipment

Baking comes with preparing a variety of kitchen tools and equipment. Ready your spatula, mixing bowls and molds and set them aside. Preheat the oven to 350° F and use your reliable food thermometer (preferably with a long probe) to measure the correct temperature. Then, line 2 sheet pans with parchment paper.

Step 2: Combine dry ingredients

Get a large mixing bowl and sift the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, ginger, and Kosher salt. Then combine them using your hands. In a separate bowl fitted to an electric mixer to beat the brown sugar, oil, and molasses in medium speed for 5 minutes.Turn the mixer to low speed, add 2 eggs and let it mix for one minute.Scrape the bowl with a rubber spatula and beat it for another minute.

Keep your mixer on low speed and gradually add your dry ingredients to the mixing bowl and mix on medium speed for 2 minutes. Add the crystallized ginger to truly achieve the holiday flavors and continue to mix the dough until it’s fully combined.

Step 3: Mold the dough

Scoop the dough using 2 spoons or a small ice cream scoop if you’re going for the classic circular cookie shapes. With your hands, you can roll each cookie into a ¾ ball then flatten it lightly using your fingers. At this point, you can put a splash of granulated sugar on the cookies’ side then set it aside as you complete other batches.

If you’re going to use a variety of mold, it’s better to have your dough as one big dough and flattened with half an inch thick. Use a rolling pin to flatten it and have fun cutting the dough using your cookie cutters or cookie molds.

Step 4: Bake the cookies

Once you’ve created the cookies and you have put them in your prepared tray, you may now put them in the oven and let it bake for exactly 13 minutes. Make sure you’re monitoring it 1-2 minutes before the mark to check if it’s already baked in golden brown color and if it’s baked according to your liking. The cookies could be cracked on top but soft inside or it could have the surface of gingerbread.

Step 5: Decorate and get creative

Let the cookies cool on the sheets for 1-2 minutes and then transfer them in a separate platter for decoration. At this point, you can decide whether to sprinkle some granulated sugar or decorate the cookies with icing of your liking. Then, let the decor settle down to the wire racks to cool completely.

Conclusion

Enjoy the holiday spirit with warm chocolate and your favorite christmas cookies. This easy-to-do, quick Ginger cookie recipe is another Christmas cookie favorite you can enjoy with your family and friends.

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