Grammy's Kitchen · Gingerbread Cookies · Chewy Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies
One of 41 gingerbread cookies recipes we measured
from handletheheat.com
19 cooks on handletheheat.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 41.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 40% | 47% |
| total sugar | 129% | 136% |
| brown sugar share of total sugar | 50% | 39% |
| egg | 17% | 17% |
| leavener | 2% | 1% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| liquid | 0% | 2% |
| mix-ins | 79% | 0% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 286 g | 2 1/4 cups (286 grams) all-purpose flour |
| 22 g | 1/4 cup (22 grams) Dutch-process cocoa powder |
| 5 g | 1 teaspoon baking soda |
| 2 g | 1 1/4 teaspoons ground ginger |
| 3 g | 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon |
| 3 g | 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt |
| 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves | |
| 1 g | 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg |
| 113 g | 1 stick (113 grams) unsalted butter, (at cool room temperature (67°F — warm butter will make your cookies spread)) |
| 6 g | 1 tablespoon peeled and grated fresh ginger |
| 100 g | 1/2 cup (100 grams) lightly packed dark brown sugar |
| 170 g | 1/2 cup (170 grams) unsulphured molasses |
| 50 g | 1 large egg, (at room temperature) |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon vanilla extract |
| 227 g | 8 ounces (227 grams) semisweet chocolate chips, (divided) |
| 100 g | 1/2 cup (100 grams) granulated sugar |
Method: 9 steps, published by handletheheat.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Love how chewy these cookies are! I like gingerbread cookies but don't like how hard they can be, so these are great. Also, the chocolate is a fun variation for chocolate lovers. Yum! The dough was really sticky, but if you use the cookie and drop it straigh” — a cook, 5.0★
“The original recipe was one of my absolute favorite holiday recipes! I’m sad it’s changed because I didn’t save the original, just had it bookmarked. Never had any problems with spreading - it was perfection! So I think this is the recipe I’m searching for bu” — a cook, 5.0★