Grammy's Kitchen · Gingerbread Cookies · Skeleton Gingerbread Cookies
One of 41 gingerbread cookies recipes we measured
1 cooks on www.cookingclassy.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 | 33% | 47% |
| total sugar | 118% | 136% |
| brown sugar share of total sugar | 45% | 39% |
| egg | 12% | 17% |
| leavener | 1% | 1% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| liquid | 11% | 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.
| 425 g | 3 cups (425g) all-purpose flour |
| 6 g | 1 Tbsp ground ginger* |
| 6 g | 2 tsp ground cinnamon |
| 1 g | 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg |
| 1/4 tsp ground cloves | |
| 3 g | 3/4 tsp baking powder |
| 2 g | 1/2 tsp baking soda |
| 3 g | 1/2 tsp salt |
| 150 g | 3/4 cup (150g) dark brown sugar (or light brown sugar) |
| 141 g | 10 Tbsp (141g) unsalted butter, (softened about halfway) |
| 50 g | 1 large egg yolk |
| 6 g | 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract |
| 172 g | 1/2 cup (172g) unsulphured molasses ((not backstrap)) |
| 15 g | 1 Tbsp milk |
| 180 g | 1 1/2 cups (180g) powdered sugar |
| 7 g | 2 1/2 tsp (7g) meringue powder |
| 30 g | 2 Tbsp water, (then a little more as needed) |
| 1 g | 1/4 tsp vanilla extract |
| 1 black food writer edible marker |
Method: 12 steps, published by www.cookingclassy.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Hi. Me and the kids made these and they are so cute!!!!” — a cook, 5.0★