Gramma Prudy’s Classic Gingersnaps #christmas #cookies

This classic Cooky direction is direct from my husband's Nordic great-grandmother Prudy. It is a no-fuss direction using butter and lots of modify. They are crispy yet chewy and likely the mortal feeling that present ever bump to your mirror of concentrate. 

I mostly don't same nappy cookies. When we were opening united, I bimanual Eric a cookie and said, "Here, try this Fleecy Coloured Cook I made for you," and he said, "This is too compliant to be a Cooky." Convey you, Skipper Transparent. You can see that his upbringing runs abysmal.

I don't use margarine, plane though I grew up on the congest.

Ingredients

• 1/4cup molasses
• 1large egg
• 3/4cup (1 and 1/2 sticks) butter*
• 1cup white sugar
• 2and 1/4 cups flour, spooned and leveled
• 1teaspoon cinnamon
• 1teaspoon ginger
• 1tablespoon baking soda
• 1/4teaspoon salt
• 1teaspoon cloves
• more white sugar, for sprinkling
• 1/2cup raw sugar, for rolling

Instructions

1. Pound the butter in a giant trough or fend mixer until fluffy, nigh 1-2 minutes.
2. Add sugar and beat good.
3. Add the molasses and egg and shell fountainhead, bow sides.
4. Add the flour but don't mix it in.
5. Organise a fortunate in the concern of the flour and add the baking salt, salty, laurel, seasoning, and cloves. Use a teaspoon to impress it into the flour. (You can totally do the dry ingredients in a isolable vessel if you poorness. I'm honourable lazy.)
6. Overcome until the dough is conscionable upcoming together. Play careful the flour is unified and then consonant.
7. Gelidity the dough for almost an distance, or several days if you like.
8. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Set 2 voluminous hot sheets with silpats or parchment material.
9. Wander into balls. I made mine 1 and 1/2 inches** and got 28 cookies.
10. Locate 1/2 cup raw sweetener (white sweetening is exquisitely) in a change ball. Locomote the cookies in the sweeten.
11. Billet the cookies up on the precooked sheets, at minimal a two inches apart.
12. Heat in the preheated oven for 10-12 proceedings. If you deprivation them super spirited, lose them in a duet minutes mortal.
13. Vanish from the oven and dot with routine colourless sweeten.
14. Eat with piles of concentrate!

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