Gingerdoodle Cookies
Spiced with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves, these Gingerdoodle Cookies have chewy soft centers and barely crisp edges. They’re the best of two favorites, the Snickerdoodle and the Gingersnap, all rolled into one cinnamon-sugar coated cookie!
My mind is swirling with all things Christmas! I love this time of year and all of the beautiful lights and decorations that are out when I walk or drive through my neighborhood.
Lights, decorations, Christmas trees, and holiday music are some of my favorite ways to get in the holiday spirit. But let’s not forget the holiday beverages like homemade hot cocoa or gingerbread coffee and baking! I cannot even tell you how many ideas I have for holiday baking this year like some of my favorite holiday cookie recipes.
More Christmas Cookies:
- Molasses Cookies
- Snowball Cookies
- Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
- Cream Cheese Cookies
- White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
- Candy Cane Cookies
- Gingerbread Cookies
- Sugar Cookies
Snickerdoodles and Gingersnaps are two of my very favorite cookies. Combine them into one and, wow, I think I have a new holiday favorite!
Spiced with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves, these cookies have chewy soft centers and barely crisp edges. I added molasses and brown sugar to the cookie dough for even more depth of flavor. The Gingerdoodles are rolled in cinnamon-sugar, and they keep their puffy shape while baking. The cookie dough is thick and there’s no need to chill it before baking, which means less time until you’ll be taking your first bite out of one of these Gingerdoodle Cookies!
You won’t be able to resist these soft, chewy spiced cookies! I served them alongside the pies for dessert this Thanksgiving and my family couldn’t help going back for one cookie after another!
Gingerdoodle Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- ½ tsp. baking powder
- ½ tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. cream of tartar
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- ½ tsp. ginger
- ¼ tsp. nutmeg
- 1/8 tsp. cloves
- ½ cup 1 stick unsalted butter, softened slightly
- ¾ cup light brown sugar
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup molasses
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla
Cinnamon-sugar for rolling:
- 3 tbsp. granulated sugar
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cream of tartar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter, brown sugar, and ¼ cup granulated sugar. Mix in molasses, egg, and vanilla. With the mixer on low speed, mix in the flour mixture until just combined.
- Stir together the 3 tablespoons granulated sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Scoop dough by the tablespoonful and roll into balls. Roll the balls in the cinnamon-sugar mixture and place on the prepared baking sheet.
- Bake cookies for 9 minutes, until barely golden and set. Be careful not to over-bake them, so they will keep their soft, chewy centers. Let cookies cool on the pan for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to finish cooling.
More Must-Make Christmas Cookies:
Chocolate Dipped Molasses Cookies
I love when the Christmas decorations are up, everything feels so festive and cheery! We put our out last weekend and I’m loving it. I’ve only ever had an artificial tree, although I think it would be a nice change to get a real one! I absolutely love these cookies, Kristine! You just combined my two favorite cookies into one…brilliant! I love how soft and fluffy these cuties look, too!
I love the smell of a real tree, and when you have kids it’s fun to pick it out together. I have fond memories of actually cutting down our Christmas tree when I was little. We haven’t done that with our kids, though – it’s Home Depot or Costco for us! 🙂 You’ve got to try these cookies! I know you’ll love them!
We always worry too! Finally we realized that the Home Depot near us had really fresh trees…that mostly last. But I still worry! Love these cookies SO much.
We’ve had good luck with the trees at Costco, too. My freezer stash of these cookies is almost gone, and I’m thinking I need to fix that by making another batch!
I love these cookies, specially the name and how chewy they look!
You are too sweet, Jocelyn! Chewy cookies are the best.
We’re waiting until this weekend to get our tree too. But mostly because it has been raining non stop ever since Thanksgiving, and the thought of brining a wet tree inside makes me cringe! These cookies sound delicious! Perfect combination of 2 of my favorite Christmas cookies!
I know, the rain! One year we ended up with a muddy tree. Not a good thing. These cookies, though, are a very good thing. The pictures don’t even begin to show how delicious they are!
a snickerdoodle meets gingersnap, yep those are definitely good combos!!! 🙂
Yes indeed!
I love all things Christmas! The decorations are out, the advent calendar is up and the baking had commenced! I love that these are ginger!
Yay for the holiday season! Sounds like we’re both ready! 🙂
I think I could eat a whole plate of these cookies. They look so good! We get a live Christmas tree every year which usually means we don’t get it until a few weeks before Christmas. I would like to get one earlier and not have to worry about it drying out before the big day.
Once you start with these cookies, it is SO hard to stop! They are addicting little bites!
We just bought an artificial tree, on black friday actually! You could always have two, one real and one fake. 🙂 I am loving this mash up of flavors, and the name, so cute!
What a good idea! I should have thought to check out Black Friday tree deals.
I haven’t even pulled out any Christmas decorations yet. I’m planning to do it this weekend. Love that you combined two cookies into one, such a great idea! Love how soft and thick these cookies look too. Pinned!
Thank you so much for pinning, Danielle! Good luck getting the decorations up!
Gingerdoodles oh my gosh I love this idea! So perfect for this time of year. Good luck with your tree sweetie!
Thanks, Allie! I can’t wait for the weekend so we can get that tree! Enjoy the rest of your week!
These gingerdoodle cookies look delicious, I can’t wait to try them! 🙂
Thank you, Jenn! I hope you enjoy them as much as we did!
We’ve always done fresh and other than vacuuming the never ending needles, I love it. Last year we waited too long and there was five or six left … we’re starting earlier this year 🙂
These cookies are the most fun cookies I’ve seen! I love them – pinned!
That happened to us one year, too! A not-so-perfect tree is just even more special, right? 🙂 Thank you so much for pinning!
These look so wonderful! I, too, always say I’m going to go get a pre-lit tree on sale after Christmas and I never do. Maybe this year it’ll happen.
Thanks, Jaren! Maybe this year… 🙂
A snickerdoodle + a gingersnap = heaven!! I love this concept and I’m eyeing those peppermint mocha donuts 🙂
Thank you, Medha! Yes, please try these cookies AND the donuts. Both are fantastic!
I am so jealous that you got your decorations and lights up already! I still haven’t found time to put my Halloween decorations AWAY;) These gingerdoodle cookies sounds SO AMAZING – I’m a huge gingersnap fan and the pairing with snickerdoodle is just brilliant.
I guess I was ahead of you because I never found time to take my Halloween decorations out this year. Ha! 🙂 I think you would love these cookies, Sarah!
Gingerdoodles! What a great idea and i bet these are perfect! I can just taste them.
I can’t wait to make another batch of these. They really are so, so good!
I have had my Christmas decorations up since the week of Thanksgiving…guess I got anxious! Plus sitting in the living room with only the Christmas tree light is one of my favorite things!
That is one of my favorite things, too! I just cannot get enough of it. Now I really can’t wait to get our tree this weekend!
These gingerdoodles look great Kristine! So soft and chewy! Still don’t have our tree up and we have an artificial one, but I plan on putting it up this weekend.
Thanks, Jessica! Have fun getting your tree up this weekend!
These look so chewy and delicious. I love anything ginger at this time of year. We do a real tree in the living room, but I also have a fake white tree that I put in another room of the house.
Thank you, Kelly! I always thought it would be fun to have two trees and decorate them differently!
I love these cookies, Kristine – the name and the ingredients! We have an artificial tree, so we get it up the day after Thanksgiving and leave it until New Year’s Day (or a little longer…) I do think it would be fun to pick out a real tree every year, but they bother my husband’s allergies, I hate the needles, our pets used to eat them and get sick, etc. We haven’t gotten our outside decorations yet because of the rain, but I can’t complain because we so need the rain! Thanks for sharing your holiday spirit with us in this nice post 🙂
You are too sweet, Andi! I like to leave my tree up until New Year’s too, since I just don’t feel quite ready to take it down right after Christmas. I’ve also enjoyed the rain this week!