Adams Ginger Snappys
- Ready In:
- 22mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Yields:
-
60 cookies
ingredients
- 1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
- 3⁄4 cup granulated sugar
- 1⁄4 cup molasses
- 1⁄4 cup crisco vegetable shortening
- 1 tablespoon room temp. butter
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 3 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1⁄4 cup cold coffee (or water)
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large mixer bowl combine, butter, shortening, sugars, molasses, egg, and vanilla.
- Beat well about three minutes.
- Measure in another bowl, spices, flour, baking soda, and salt.
- Pour dry ingredients into low speed moving mixer bowl, with the wet creamy ingredients, as it is combining add the cold coffee, and beat until all comes together to a stiff dough.
- That will only be a minutes-- Roll small tsp, size balls and dip into extra granulated sugar, and place on parchment lined sheet.Flatten to 1/8 inch thick with a sugared bottom of a glass.
- Bake 11- 13 minutes-- Edges should be brown-- Cookies crisp upon cooling.
- Note-- bake a few to get the crispness you desire-- under done can give you a chewy centre core-- or overdone could give you a crunchy hard cookie-- I always test bake.
- these cookies puff up and spread rounder.
- the puffiness goes flat at end of baking time-- to a flat crisp cookie-- Also Taste test, to see if you have enough spicey ginger taste, or would like to add more.
- Baker always gets the best end of the wooden spoon--.
- This dough freezes very well into logs also. Just slice then roll each slice into a ball and dip into sugar. Press down just lightly as cookie flatens when fully baked.
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Reviews
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THIS is what a Gingersnap is all about. Perfect amount of ginger, extra snap to the cookie. The only thing I did "different" if so considered was I forgot to save any of the morning coffee so used espresso powder dissolved in water, so really not a change. This is my new Gingersnap recipe, will look no further. Thanks so much for sharing this.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
andypandy
Canada
Grandmother of two boys, great grandmother of one ...worked in hardware and construction for forty years, read all cookbooks, watch all cook shows on tv. like to cook all types of new recipes.