Ingredients
- 1 cup soft butter
- 1 ½ cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons corn syrup
- ¼ cup molasses
- 2 eggs
- 2 ¾ cups flour
- 2 tsp cream of tartar
- 1 tsp soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- pinch of cloves
- ½ cup chunks candied ginger plus 2 tablespoons
- 1 cup sugar (for topping)
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Gingerdoodles
Time: 20 minutes prep, 8 minutes cook
Servings: 48
Directions
- Sift dry ingredients, put about half of the dry ingredients on a clean cutting board. Put the 1/2 cup candied ginger in the flour mix on cutting board and start chopping until fine, stirring and coating the candied ginger as you chop.
- Cream butter and sugar add eggs then plain dry ingredients, then the part with the ginger chopped into it.
- Chop the remaining ginger into the sugar for topping
- Shape in balls walnut size.
- Roll in sugar. Bake on parchment or silpat at 400 degrees for about 8 minutes or until just done, cool on cookie sheet for a few minutes before removing to cooling rack.
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Summary
Candied ginger and a little molasses make this a snickerdoodle with attitude. Nice for those pitiful few with chocolate allergies.
