Ginger Chocolate Spice Cookies
Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 3:20PM
Margot in Ginger Chocolate Spice Cookies, cookies, dessert

This is the classic, chewy, crackly cookie recipe everyone knows and loves, though my version has both clove and nutmeg in it as well.  One year, I experimented by adding just a little bit of cocoa and I was very pleased with the results. 

If you want the classic, just eliminate the cocoa and use the full two cups of flour. 

I usually make this dough in advance and chill it.  Once chilled, I roll it out into balls and then bake.  I have also kept the raw cookie balls in a bag in the freezer and rolled out a few at a time when needed. 

I struggled with this recipe for years.  They kept coming out like little cakes.  Until I found Alice Medrich's book and realized I had mistakenly written down baking powder instead of baking soda. 

Ingredients

2 cups flour, less 2 tbs
¼ cup cocoa powder
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground cloves
¼ tsp ground nutmeg
¼ tsp salt
1 stick unsalted butter
½ cup granulated sugar
½ cup brown sugar, lightly packed
2 eggs
¼ cup molasses
¾ cup coarse sugar (for coating)

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