Grammy's Kitchen · Gingerbread Cookies · Gingerbread Cookies
One of 41 gingerbread cookies recipes we measured
from bakingamoment.com
It ranks #3 of 41 for center texture among the gingerbread cookies recipes we compared. 83 cooks on bakingamoment.com rate it 4.5★.
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 | 91% | 136% |
| brown sugar share of total sugar | 100% | 39% |
| egg | 21% | 17% |
| leavener | 0% | 1% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| liquid | 0% | 2% |
| cornstarch | 9% | 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.
| 227 g | 1 cup unsalted butter ((2 sticks), softened slightly but still cool) |
| 213 g | 1 cup dark brown sugar ((tightly packed)) |
| 225 g | 2/3 cup molasses |
| 100 g | 2 eggs, (large) |
| 43 g | 1/3 cup cornstarch |
| 7 g | 2 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon |
| 4 g | 2 teaspoons ground ginger |
| 3 g | 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt |
| 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves | |
| 480 g | 4 cups all-purpose flour ((you may need as much as 5 cups)) |
Method: 9 steps, published by bakingamoment.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Hi Allie, I've bookmarked your recipe frop years, but only came to bake it now. The gingerbread cookies really don't spread, which is awesome. But the dough was really really soft, even after 600 g of flour in it, so I left it in the fridge over night, which w” — a cook, 5.0★
“These cookies are AMAZING I did end up using 5 cups of flour and they were still a little sticky so another half cup, they turned out great, they are DELICIOUS and I don't even like gingerbread, I think between the dough and warm cookies I probably ate a pound” — a cook, 5.0★