Recipe: Tasty Ginger cookies

Ginger cookies.

You can cook Ginger cookies using 13 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Ginger cookies

1. Prepare 3/4 cup of softened butter.
2. You need 3/4 cup of sugar.
3. Prepare 1/2 cup of molasses.
4. It's 2 1/2 cups of AP flour.
5. Prepare 1/2 cup of milk (I used unsweetened almond).
6. It's 1 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
7. It's 1 T of ground ginger.
8. Prepare 2 tsp of cinnamon.
9. You need 1 tsp of ground cloves.
10. Prepare 2 tsp of nutmeg.
11. You need 2 T of fresh grated ginger.
12. You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
13. It's 2 T of sanding sugar.

Ginger cookies step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Cream butter, sugar and molasses.
3. Add milk and blend thoroughly.
4. In separate bowl, mix flour, soda and spices.
5. Add flour mixture to butter mixture slowly, mixing as you go.
6. Be sure to scrape down the bowl as you add more flour.
7. Add fresh ginger and salt.
8. Mix thoroughly.
9. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
10. Scoop dough with a teaspoon.
11. Roll each scoop into a ball with your hands.
12. Coat each ball with sanding sugar before placing on baking sheet.
13. Flatten each cookie a little. They will not spread.
14. Bake 10-12 minutes.