If you keep only one cookie recipe in your back pocket, make it this one. These chocolate-dipped gingerbread crinkle cookies are soft, warmly spiced and perfectly crackled, with crisp sugar edges and a rich dark chocolate finish.
Chocolate-Dipped Gingerbread Crinkle Cookies
Soft, spiced gingerbread crinkle cookies with crisp sugar edges and a rich molasses flavour. Finished with a dip of dark chocolate and sprinkle of sea salt, they’re elegant and festive.
Ingredients
Gingerbread Crinkle Cookies
- 2½ cups all-purpose flour spooned and levelled
- 1 tbsp ground ginger
- 1¾ tsp baking soda
- ¾ tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- ¼ tsp ground cloves
- ¾ cup unsalted butter softened
- 1½ cups granulated sugar divided
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp grated fresh ginger optional
- ⅓ cup fancy molasses
- flaked sea salt for garnish
- decorative candy optional
- crystallized ginger for garnish
Chocolate Dip
- 170 g chopped dark or bittersweet chocolate divided
Instructions
Gingerbread Crinkle Cookies
- In bowl, whisk flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and cloves.
- In large bowl, using electric mixer on medium speed, beat butter with 1 cup sugar until creamy and light, about 3 minutes. Beat in egg and grated ginger (if using), scraping bottom and side. Beat in molasses.
- Beat in half of the flour mixture on low speed, then beat in the remaining half. Scrape into large piece of plastic wrap, folding over and flattening slightly. Refrigerate until firm, about 2 hours or up to overnight.
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Using a 2 tbsp scoop, portion out dough and roll into balls. Roll each ball in bowl of the remaining ½ cup sugar to coat.
- Place on baking sheets 2 in (5 cm) apart and bake until puffed and rounded, 9 to 10 minutes. Let cool on pan for 10 minutes. Transfer to racks and let cool completely.
- Sprinkle with flaked sea salt and/or pieces of crystalized ginger. Let cookies set at room temperature for 5 minutes; refrigerate until completely set.
Chocolate Dip
- In microwave-safe bowl, melt half of the chocolate in 30-second intervals until almost melted; stir in the remaining chocolate until smooth. Drizzle over cooled cookies or dip half of the top of each cookie into bowl.
