Soft Ginger Snap Cookies: Christmas Cookie Exchange

Today I’m thrilled to be joined by 13 other amazing bloggers for our Christmas Cookie Exchange. We all baked a batch of cookies or treats and swapped blogs to share our recipes.

I’m honored to have Barbara from Barbara Bakes sharing her Soft Ginger Snap Cookies with you! You can find my Chocolate Strawberry Truffles over at Sweet Sugarbelle’s!

A soft molasses cookie with warm winter spices, cinnamon and ginger, and studded with cinnamon chips for an extra layer of cinnamon deliciousness.

Thanks Liz for inviting me to share a cookie recipe on Hoosier Homemade as part of our Virtual Christmas Cookie Exchange. I’m Barbara and you’ll find me baking sweet treats and more on Barbara Bakes and pressure cooking quick, delicious family meals on Pressure Cooking Today.

My daughter was visiting recently. She’s eight months pregnant and was craving something sweet, so we whipped up these scrumptious soft ginger snap cookies. She has fond memories of eating ginger snap cookies this time of year. We like our ginger snaps soft, not the hard crunchy ginger snaps you buy in the grocery store.

Since I’d stashed away several bags of cinnamon chips in the pantry, we decided they’d be the perfect addition to our soft ginger snap cookies. If you haven’t tried cinnamon chips yet, they’re basically a white chocolate chip spiced up with cinnamon.

Cinnamon Chips can sometimes be hard to find. Hershey’s makes them and they’re often only available in stores in the fall and winter. You can buy them online through Amazon or King Arthur Flour. If you’re adventurous, you can even make cinnamon chips at home. Renata at Testado, Provado & Aprovado did a delicious post about how easy it is to make cinnamon chips.

These cookies would also be delicious with semi-sweet chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, or even with no chips at all and a tall glass of cold milk. Enjoy!

Thanks so much Barbara! This recipe looks amazing! For more recipes to fill your cookie tray – visit these bloggers!

• Candy Cane Meringue Cookies shared on Bless This Mess by Sweet Treats and More
• Chocolate Filled Gingersnaps on Barbara Bakes by Taste and Tell
• Chocolate Peppermint & Oreo Cookies shared on Let’s Dish by Mandy’s Recipe Box
• Chocolate Strawberry Truffles shared on Sweet Sugarbelle by Hoosier Homemade
• Crispy Maple Sugar Cookies shared on Mandy’s Recipe Box by Bless This Mess
• Gingerbread Drop Cookies shared on Kitchen Meets Girl by Munchkin Munchies
• Iced Gingerbread Cookies shared on A Family Feast by Roxana’s Home Baking
• Italian Almond Cookies shared on Munchkin Munchies by Your Homebased Mom
• Molasses Cookies shared on Crumbs and Chaos by Kitchen Meets Girl
• Orange & Ginger Cookies with Chocolate Drizzle shared on Your Homebased Mom by A Family Feast
• Orange Ginger Pecan Cookies shared on Sweet Treats and More by Let’s Dish
• Snowmen Cookie Pops shared on Roxana’s Home Baking by Sweet Sugarbelle
• Soft Chocolate Gingersnaps shared on Taste and Tell by Crumbs and Chaos
• Soft Gingersnap Cookies shared on Hoosier Homemade by Barbara Bakes

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Soft Ginger Snap Cookies: Christmas Cookie Exchange

Yield: 3 dozen

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes

A soft molasses cookie with warm winter spice,s cinnamon and ginger, and studded with cinnamon chips for an extra layer of cinnamon deliciousness. Recipe on HoosierHomemade.com from BarbaraBakes.com

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Ingredients

• 2 2/3 cups all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup cinnamon chips
• Turbinado sugar

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or silpats.
2. Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, and salt; set aside.
3. In a large mixing bowl, beat butter and sugar on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy.
4. Add egg; beat until well blended.
5. Mix in molasses and vanilla.
6. On low speed, mix in flour just until blended. Stir in cinnamon chips.
7. Shape dough into 1 inch balls; roll in sugar. Place 2 inches apart on baking sheet. Flatten cookies slightly with a flat bottom cup or mug.
8. Bake 8-10 minutes until cookies are light brown around edges and tops crackle. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

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