These easy, homemade gingersnap cookies are thin and crispy, and rolled in sparkly coarse sugar for the perfect crunchy ginger snap cookie recipe. These ginger snaps are a great make ahead cookie - either bake them ahead, or store the frozen cookie dough in the freezer for later!

Hi hi!
Just popping in to share the recipe for these homemade gingersnap cookies! These cookies are an addition to my collection of holiday cookie recipes that I am working on, and something that I have been meaning to work on for a while.
This ginger snap cookie recipe is a twist on my soft and chewy ginger molasses cookies - I tweaked the recipe to make it a little thinner, and baked them longer to give the perfect thin gingersnap cookie that is crunchy around the edges and slightly chewy in the middle. You could also call them a molasses crinkle cookie, or if you're familiar with gingernut biscuits, these are my perfect version of that! They make a great Christmas cookie, but to be honest, I make these year round.
Gingersnap Cookie Ingredients
These homemade gingersnap cookies are super easy, have a quick prep time, and are a no chill ginger snap cookie recipe, meaning that you can have them in the oven super quickly, and baked in about 16-17 minutes!
- Butter. I use unsalted, make sure that it is at nice room temperature.
- Granulated sugar. Either Caster sugar or regular granulated sugar works - this is the beauty of baking by weight, 200g of sugar is 200g sugar!
- Brown sugar. Either light brown sugar or dark brown sugar works here.
- Egg. Just one to bind - I haven't tried subbing it sorry!
- Molasses. Molasses adds to the depth of flavour in the ginger snap cookie. If you can't get your hands on molasses, you can use treacle or golden syrup, but it is worth getting some molasses if you can! I use unsulphured molasses, but I have tested this with blackstrap molasses and it works great.
- Vanilla. I use vanilla bean paste, but extract works great.
- All-purpose flour. Also called plain flour - nothing fancy here.
- Spices. These are a pretty spicy gingersnap cookie recipe - I use ground ginger, cinnamon, and cardamom in my recipe. The cardamom really gives the ginger snaps something special. You can use extra cinnamon if you don't have it, but I love what is does here.
- Baking soda. I use baking soda in this recipe to give the cookie spread, and baking soda also reacts with molasses.
- Salt. Skip it if you are using salted butter, but properly salting your baking, especially your sweet baking, makes such a difference! You won't necessarily notice the salt, but it rounds things out so nicely.
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I often get a lot of questions about how I tweak a recipe - now that I have been running my food blog for a number of years, I often turn to my own recipes as a jumping off point when working on a new recipe.
For this ginger snap recipe, I used my ginger molasses cookies as a starting point. I love the recipe, but wanted something slightly thinner and crunchier, so here are the changes that I made, which are often changes I make in other cookie recipes too to manipulate them how I like.
- Changed the ratio of brown sugar to white sugar. My ginger molasses cookies have a higher ratio of brown sugar to white, which makes them thicker and spread less. I switched up the ratios for these ginger snap cookies, meaning the cookies spread more, and have a perfect chewy texture which gets crunchy around the edges.
- Drop the flour content sightly. This increases the ratio of butter to flour, meaning the cookie spreads a little more in the oven.
- Increase the molasses. I tweaked it by just a little, but this help with spread.
- Increase baking soda. I use baking soda rather than baking powder in the cookies, and increased the quantity slightly to ensure there was enough to give the cookies a little rise and not be cancelled out by the molasses. My general rule is baking soda helps with spread, and baking powder helps with puff.
- Bake for longer. This is a pretty simple one, but to get that lovely crunchy gingersnap cookie, I increased the bake time slightly. If you want them even more crunchy, bake them for a little longer!
Can Ginger Snap Cookies be made ahead of time?
These gingersnap cookies are great to make ahead of time, as they are a super robust cookie and keep super well in a container. Alternatively you can make the dough ahead of time and store the cookie dough balls in the freezer until you are ready to bake, or bake some off and then freeze the rest of the dough.
How do you store Ginger Snap Cookies?
Store gingersnap cookies in an airtight container at room temperature. They will keep for up to a week stored correctly.
I haven't tried freezing the baked cookie - I would freeze the dough as fresh baked is always so much nicer!
How to freeze cookie dough
This gingersnap cookie recipe is great to make ahead - the dough stores super well frozen, so you can pull it out and bake whenever you need.
It is important to not coat the balls of dough in the sugar before you freeze them, otherwise the sugar will get all weird and weepy when you bring them out to re bake.
To freeze the dough, scoop it out, roll into balls, then flash freeze the dough and store in the freezer in an airtight container or bag for up to three months.
For more tips and tricks on freezing dough and baking from frozen, check out my post: How to freeze cookie dough
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I tested this out with some of the gingersnap cookie dough that I had frozen, and found that the best way to bake the frozen dough and get the most similar outcome is to bake it at a lower temperature - 325°f / 160°c (I cover this more on other cookies in my post on how to freeze cookie dough) . This gives the frozen dough more time to spread.
When you are ready to bake from frozen, remove the dough from the freezer and leave it to stand at room temperature to soften very slightly while the oven preheats. This makes the surface of the cookie dough ball slightly sticky, and means the sugar will stick to the outside.
Roll the cookies in sugar and bake for 17-18 minutes or until the cookies are your desired level of doneness.
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What tools and equipment do you use?
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Can Ginger Snaps be made Gluten Free?
I haven't tried it sorry, so I'm not sure!
Can this recipe be made without a stand mixer?
Yes, if you don't have a stand mixer you can use an electric hand mixer, or make by hand if you have a lot of elbow grease!
Can I roll the gingersnap cookies in something else?
Yes - do whatever you like here! You could roll the cookies in ginger sugar like I did in my ginger molasses cookie recipe , or roll them in a cinnamon sugar mixture.
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A note on salt and oven temperature
It is important to note the type of salt that is called for in a recipe. I use Diamond Crystal salt throughout my recipes - if you use a different sort of kosher salt or regular table salt you will need to adjust accordingly as some salt is 'saltier' than others. Morton's salt is twice as salty, so you will need half the quantity. Same goes for a regular table salt. I am working to get gram measurements throughout my recipes for salt but still getting there.
All oven temperatures are conventional unless otherwise stated. If you are baking on fan / convection, you will need to adjust the temperature. An oven thermometer is a great investment to ensure that your oven is the correct temperature.
Using the double / triple function in the recipe card
You will notice that there is a '1X' '2X' '3X' button in my recipe card. This can be used for doubling or tripling a recipe. However, please note that this only doubles the ingredient quantities in the ingredients list and NOT in the method. If there are quantities or pan sizes in the method of the recipe (for example weigh out 150g brown butter), you will need to scale this number manually. It will also not change the baking time in the recipe so you will need to adjust this yourself too. It is always a good idea to read through a recipe fully before doubling it just to check this. If you would like to scale this recipe or convert for another pan size, use my calculator !
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Why is this recipe in grams?
I post my recipes in grams as it is the most accurate way to bake. Cups are not only inaccurate but they vary in volume worldwide. There is no way for me to provide one cup measure that works for everyone. However, posting in weight fixes this issue. If you would like the recipe in cups you are welcome to convert it yourself via google, but please do not ask me to do it for you as I am not comfortable providing a recipe using a method that I have not tested. Baking with a scale is easy, accurate, and also makes cleanup super simple. Here is the scale that I use if you would like a recommendation! Here's to accurate baking!
Print30 Minute Thin and Crispy Gingersnap Cookies
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 22 cookies 1 x
- Category: Cookies
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Description
These easy, homemade gingersnap cookies are thin and crispy, and rolled in sparkly coarse sugar for the perfect crunchy ginger snap cookie recipe. These ginger snaps are a great make ahead cookie - either bake them ahead, or store the frozen cookie dough in the freezer for later!
Ingredients
- 225g butter, at room temperature
- 100g light or dark brown sugar
- 200g granulated sugar
- 40g unsulphured molasses (blackstrap works too)
- 1 large egg ( 50g without the shell), at room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract
- 290g all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp ( 6g ) baking soda
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 4 tsp ( 8g ) ground ginger
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground cardamom
- Turbinado / demerara / raw sugar for rolling
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°f / 180°c. Line 2-3 baking sheets with parchment paper (you may have to bake these in several batches depending on how many trays your oven can tolerate).
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar, and molasses together on high speed until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla and mix to combine. Sift together the flour, baking soda, salt and spices in a small bowl. Add to the mixer and mix on low until just combined.
- Using a 2 tbsp spring loaded cookie scoop, scoop balls of dough (approx 45g each), and place them onto a prepared baking sheet. I like to do 6 on each sheet then increase to 8 when I know how much space they will take up. Roll each ball of dough between your hands to form a ball, then roll in the turbinado sugar before placing on the baking sheet. Leave any mixture that you are not baking off just yet in the bowl and scoop just before baking.
- Bake the cookies for 16-17 minutes or until puffy and set around the edges. Remove from the oven, and if you like, scoot the cookies into a rounder shape using a cookie cutter slightly larger than the cookie. Cool on the pan for 5 minutes - the cookies will deflate slightly as they cool. Transfer to a wire rack and allow to cool completely. Repeat the baking process with the remaining cookie dough.
- Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week.
Notes
If you want your ginger snap cookies to be more crunchy, increase the bake time by 1-2 minutes.
Keywords: Gingersnaps, Ginger Snaps, Ginger Cookies
Comments
the best!!!!
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Can't wait to make these!!
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Is molasses in the recipe the blackstrap molasses I can buy in a NZ supermarket or the American one that is more like treacle? I wouldn't want to waste the ingredients, having made that mistake before and not used the right type. Thank you for clarification.
Hi! Blackstrap should work fine here because it's such a small quantity! I used one I got from Moore Wilson's which is an Aussie brand and pretty sure it's blackstrap!
These are delicious! Crispy and chewy. They were super quick to make and even though I thought the balls may have been too soft, they turned out beautifully.
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These are insane!!! I love spicy cookies and these are my new favorite, thank you Erin!
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Sooo yum! I used fan bake on 180° by accident and they were so perfectly crispy! Obviously my oven knew the texture I wanted.
Also, I added mixed spice instead of cinnamon (also by accident, what is wrong with me - ahhh yes ADHD) and then realised and added cinnamon and holy heck was so yum. Thanks Erin!
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Taste great, used golden syrup as didn’t have molasses.
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Just made these are they are so so yummy and pretty! Super easy and quick and come out just like the pictures!
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These are so, so good. I love ginger but was a little hesitant when I saw that amount in the recipe. However, it's a perfect balance with the other spices and sugar. Happy Holidays!
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Look no further. This is the only ginger molasses recipe you need. Comes out perfect every single time. I love the fact you don’t need to chill… because I need instant gratification cookies!
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I love soft chewy cookies but hubby likes crunchy cookies so when I saw this I knew I had to try it. I did make them a wee bit smaller at 25gr each and baked them for 14 minutes. Perfect cookies. They are crunchy and have a great ginger snap flavor. I have made several of your recipes and they are all easy to follow and delicious!
Thank you for sharing!
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Thank you for this recipe, Erin. I'm going to make them tomorrow!
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The texture of these are perfect. I did for 17mins in a fan forced oven at 170 and they are perfectly crisp but still have a tiny bit of give in the centre. I want to add some diced glace ginger next time for more ginger oomph - am worried it will soften them but even it if does they will still be an amazing biscuit. These are exactly the sort of biccie I want in the tin for morning tea.
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These were a perfect round out to my Christmas baking. Pairs nicely with afternoon tea, egg nog ice cream or a little after dinner sweet.
Hi Erin,
Hope you are feeling well.
I have some brown butter buttercream to use up. Do you think these cookies would work as a sandwich cookie or should I use a softer cookie?
Thank you
Hi! No they would be super delicious as a sandwich cookie! Maybe a little hard to eat but you could also just frost the tops?
These cookies are perfect! I made them a bit smaller and sandwiched them with brown butter cream cheese icing and they’re a huge hit! Spice level is awesome.
Thanks for a great recipe!
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The most perfect gingersnaps! The recipe is so easy and came out perfectly the first time. I don’t normally bake by weight but I will from now on…I think it made all the difference.
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Loved these cookies! Super easy to make. Made them for my Christmas cookie boxes and all my friends and family loved them. One of my new favorite cookies to make and eat
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Absolutely amazing, my first time making these and they were a hit. Super easy and absolutely delicious. They came out exactly like on the picture!
My new fav ginger cookie recipe! Very quick and simple to make, and came out perfectly. Took them out at 15 mins to keep them a little chewy. Would be perfect paired with vanilla ice cream to make a sandwich.
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These are amazing!! Will absolutely be making again. May have smashed back one too many when soft and warm out of the oven but they're just as good when cooled and crispy. Giving me crunchy dunkable gingernut vibes which I haven't found in a recipe before!
Very tasty! The kick of cardamom works so well with these.
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