I love cookies that are bigger than my hand! They make it that more enjoyable to eat because it’s like a never-ending cookie. But all good things must come to an end so of course these hand-sized cookies only prolong the heavenly cookie effect for a tad longer than regular sized cookies :)
If you haven’t looked at your calendar, you may not have noticed that today is 12/12/12. I’m obsessed with dates that have some kind of pattern to them. Like 10/11/12 or 11/12/13. I wish I could get married on a “cool” date. My wedding photographer got married on 10/10/10, how fun! Ok, that’s my random tangent of the day.
So I think I’ve made these cookies over three times already since Lauren posted the recipe. I love how soft and chewy they are and I LOVE the ginger flavor. They’re definitely like a ginger snap cookie but without the snap. I’d call them ginger chews if I could, but then that sounds like a candy.
I decided that these would be the perfect and most holiday appropriate cookie to make for the 2nd annual Food Bloggers Cookie Swap!
I participated in this last year and definitely was excited when Lindsay & Julie decided to keep this tradition going! This year’s was a bit different (for a very good cause) because when you signed up, you had to pay $4 but that $4 was donated to OXO’s Cookies for Kids’ Cancer program. They’re matching donations, dollar for dollar, up to $100,00! Additionally, each participant got a Be a Good Cookie OXO Spatula!
My matches this year were: Cassie of Bake your Day, Monique of I Are The Food Snob (which is too funny because she sent ME cookies last year!), and Jennifer of Healthy Wifestyles. I sent all three of them regular versions of this cookie. I’m sure they all wanted the hand-sized ones but I would’ve had to triple my already doubled batch!
I received cookies from Mackenzie of Susie Freaking Homemaker, Lauren of Making Life Sweet, and Ashley of Girly Obsessions. Thank you ladies for your delicious cookies! Jason and I devoured each and every one of them. Nope, we didn’t share with our coworkers this time :) I wish I had gotten pictures of them but I tore into the packages too soon!
I can’t wait to do this again next year!
Molasses Ginger Cookies
Yield: 2 dozen | Prep Time: 10 minutes | Cook Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
2 1/4 cup all purpose flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. ground ginger
1/2 tsp. ground cloves
1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup dark brown sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup molasses
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and brown sugar until creamy and fluffy. Add in the the egg and molasses. Beat until incorporated.
- Slowly add in the dry ingredients until just combined. Drop onto prepared baking sheets with a cookie scoop. To make extra large sizes, I did two scoops of cookie dough, rolled in a ball, and gently pressed the tops down.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes. I took mine out a minute before they were done as I like mine softer and chewier.
- Let sit for 5 minutes before removing baking sheets. Let cool completely on a wire rack.
- Store in an airtight container.
Source: adapted from Climbing Grier Mountain
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Giant cookies are my best friend… or the devil since they’re clearly not the friend of my waistline but jeez I want one!
Julie,
These look wonderful! I am a fan of larger cookies as well, although my maple almond brown butter glazed cookies may not have showed that. :)
Take care,
Lauren
I bet everyone loved to receive these in the mail from you :)
You can’t go wrong with a giant cookie! These look so good – dark and spicy and chewy and GIANT! Yum.
GETINMYFACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg
These cookies look perfect, Julie! Such a classic!
This is the kind of cookie I dream about!
These look incredible!!! I may have to add these to my Christmas cookie list!
Squeel!! Yay! So excited you liked the cookies. They are super yummy! Thanks for sharing the recipe, Julie! xoxo
Um, hi awesome huge cookie! I want you in my face.
These look delicious, Julie!
I can never get enough molasses cookies in my life. thank you for feeding my addiction miss Julie! They look like completely perfection – so crinkly, large & in charge. 12/12/12 – love it!
oh these look fab!
umm….cookies the size of my face are, like, my favorite thing ever. and molasses? I need these.
I love molasses. I love cookies. And you say the size of my face? SWOON!
Wow these cookies are HUGE!! Super jealous of your matches…these photos are making me droooool. :)
What an awesome cookie swap!! I LOVE that this is for a charity! thanks for sharing Julie!
Oh my word – I want cookies the size of my face!! Especially molasses and ginger, they’re like my favourites ever!
I’d have to lock myself away with them of course, no sharing – I’ve added them to my “to bake” list :)
LOVE these cookies Julie! I think I need to make them – especially if you say they are bigger than your hand…that’s my kind of cookie!!
I’ve seen so many good molasses cookies these past few days! It’s going to be hard to decide what ones to make first….
I also have a little place in my heart for big cookies.
These looked so good I had to make them right away! Delicious recipe, thank you for posting.
Those look chewy and soft and perfect!
Christmas is not complete without molasses ginger cookies!!
These cookies scream…”It’s the holidays!” Swoon.
I wish I was the recipient of these cookies!
OMG … Ginger… love love love!
These look perfect – big, soft, and full of flavor!
Loved how chewy these were. My kind of cookie for sure. Thank you so much!
Julie, these look delicious! Ill have to add them to my to-do list :) I’m glad you liked my cookies, too!! (And the packaging! Its always nice to meet another baking designer :) Love your blog!)
These look like they might be the size of my face! My kind of cookie!! They look amazing Julie!
Look at how gorgeous your cookies came out!!! O-m-g I want some now.
Gah! Those look amazing! Sweet and chewy with a little bit of kick from the ginger? Want!
These cookies look incredible! I want to read through the screen and grab one! ;)
yum! i’ll have to give these a try.
Bahaha, i love that we made basically the same exact cookie for the swap! Great minds think alike, right? =)
For sure@ We got married on 07/08/09 and decided to have the celebration on 09/10/11 but that was postponed. Lucky me coz hub has no excuse to forget our anniversary. :)
Yum! I love having ginger on cookies, very heartwarming and perfect for the holidays.
I made these with The Ginger People Ginger Juice since I was out of ginger :(. They were delicious but they came out more cakie. Super yummy!
Beautiful cookies Julie! I want one of the giant versions!!!! :D
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I made these tonight and the flavor is very good, but for some reason mine turned out cakey in texture not the chewy I was going for. Any suggestions on how I went wrong? Two things that occur to me as likely having an effect: I only had light butter on hand, which is part oil part butter, the other being that I had two pans in the oven and somehow didn’t realize it until I took the last cookies out. I’m not sure if either of these did it but I do plan to use unsalted butter next time and of course make sure my oven is empty, but if you can think of anything else let me know please since I’m dying for the chewy cookies I’ve been craving since i saw these on Pinterest!
I’m not too positive as to why yours turned out cakey, the more oil content from your butter might’ve done it, or you could try to add more molasses. Maybe also try to cook them 1 pan at a time in the middle of the rack.
Just made these!! Mine were the perfect texture! I love the tang of the molasses and the zip of the ginger! Great work Julie! I will surely be sharing this recipe on my blog! It’s too delicious not to!
Oh no! I only have light brown sugar! Will that work!? I am a baking novice and just left the grocery store.
Yes, that’ll be fine!
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