Soft Chewy Ginger Cookies with Tsp Cinnamon

Serves 30 in about 42 minutes. An oven recipe built around lg egg and tsp ground cloves.

Ingredients

• ¾ cup butter, unsalted, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 lg egg
• ¼ cup molasses
• 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour
• 2 tsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp baking soda*
• ½ tsp ground cloves
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ¼ tsp salt
• Additional sugar, for rolling dough in

Method

1. Warm oven to 350° F.
2. In a stand mixer bowl, or a large mixing bowl (if mixing by hand), cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
3. Beat in the egg and molasses.
4. In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, ginger, baking soda, cloves, cinnamon, and salt.
5. Gradually add large spoonfuls of the dry mixture to the creamed mixture and mix well.
6. Roll into 1 ½ inch balls, then roll the balls in sugar.
7. Set the balls of sugared dough 2 inches apart on ungreased, parchment lined baking sheets.
8. Cook at 350° F until cookies are puffed up a bit and lightly browned, 10-12 minutes.
9. Leave it to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes, then remove to wire racks to finish cooling.

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