Grammy's Kitchen · Gingerbread Cookies · Gingerbread Cookie
One of 41 gingerbread cookies recipes we measured
from preppykitchen.com
291 cooks on preppykitchen.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 | 47% | 47% |
| total sugar | 93% | 136% |
| brown sugar share of total sugar | 100% | 39% |
| egg | 14% | 17% |
| leavener | 1% | 1% |
| salt | 0% | 1% |
| liquid | 0% | 2% |
| 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.
| 360 g | 3 cups all-purpose flour ((360g)) |
| 5 g | 1 teaspoon baking soda |
| 2 g | 1/4 teaspoon salt |
| 4 g | 2 teaspoons ground ginger |
| 3 g | 1 teaspoon cinnamon |
| 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves | |
| 1 g | 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg |
| 170 g | 3/4 cup unsalted butter (room temperature (170g)) |
| 165 g | 3/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar ((165g)) |
| 168 g | 1/2 cup unsulphured molasses ((120mL)) |
| 50 g | 1 large egg (room temperature) |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon vanilla extract ((5mL)) |
| Royal icing (or easy sugar cookie icing, for decorating) |
Method: 11 steps, published by preppykitchen.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“These are amazing! I thought I already had a perfect gingerbread cookie recipe I've been using for the past few years and wasn't going to it but I was curious. So glad I was because they're so much better. The other recipe is good, this one is amazing. My mom ” — a cook, 5.0★
“It's absolutely lovely,thanks for your clear instructions,I would prepare these and keep adding flour as the dough would be sticky instead of freezing it.I made a few changes though ,I used wheat flour instead of all purpose flour and added orange zest and jui” — a cook, 5.0★