Chocolate Soft Gingersnaps
Delightful little soft gingerbread cookies that you simply must make this holiday season. Classic gingersnaps turned to the dark side with chocolate addition. These cookies are made in a chocolate version with added mini chocolate chips.
Gingersnaps
December holds the record for the most cookies baked. We’ve been making cookies at least twice a week here. Not that I’m complaining but I don’t know how much more my hips can take.
You see, I have a big weakness for cookies. I can resist cakes, cheesecakes and fudge, and I would be just fine having only a few bites a day. But cookies, cookies I can munch on all day long. That could be trouble. No wonder holidays are not figure friendly at all.
Although, my little man is very much enjoying the abundance of cookies and baking with me. He is fascinated with my stand up mixer and loves adding ingredients to it while it’s mixing. He is like a mad scientist.
After we made some gingerbread man cookies this year, I got a craving for gingersnaps. I wanted to run a little experiment to see if I could pull off gingersnaps in a chocolate version. We totally nailed it.
They were not just really, really tasty as a chocolate cookie, they are very simple and the texture was perfect. Soft and chewy, just like I like it.
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Chocolate Chocolate Chip Gingersnaps (Giveaway)
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 3/4 cup melted salted butter
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup molasses
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- 3/4 cup mini chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup white granulated sugar for coating.
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together brown sugar, melted butter, egg, vanilla and molasses until smooth.
- Sift in cocoa powder.
- Add flour, baking soda, ground ginger, cinnamon and ground cloves. Mix until all combined. (You may have to switch to a spatula because the dough will get thick.)
- Fold in mini chocolate chips.
- Cover and refrigerate for at least an hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350 and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Roll 1-inch cookie dough balls and lightly coat them with white granulated sugar. Place on a baking sheet and gently press down a little. Repeat with 8-more cookie dough balls (depending on a size of your cookie sheet), placing them 2 inches apart. (Refrigerate the dough in between batches.)
- Bake for 10-11 minutes.
- Cool on a wire rack and enjoy.
Notes
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Ok, these cookies are delicious. One interesting adult pairing is with a glass of red wine.
Sounds good to me! Yum! 😀
I love these cookies!
I would make a kentucky derby pie! Mmmmm!
First would be your beautiful chocolate gingersnaps, and the vanilla bean challah would help me ring in the New Year1
I would make the ginger snap cookies
I would make Vanilla Gingerbread Cookies. cupcake97201 (at) yahoo (dot) com
I would bake a bunch of cookies for my office and daycare ladies
cookies!
beautiful cookies and lovely photographs.
i saw the Cranberry Pear and Vanilla Bean Jam on rodelle’s site and immediately knew that’s what i’d love to make! i love specialty jellies/preserves and they would make perfect gifts for christmas (or even valentine’s day). 🙂
Vanilla Bean Rice Pudding! Yum
Oh the Cranberry Pear and Vanilla Bean Jam would have to be first! Thanks for the chance! 🙂
I think I would make pizzelles!
We love the simple but delicious things..I would bake the Rainbow M&M cookies!
Congratulations, Kristin!
You are the winner!
I will send you an email as well, to the email you left here.
The first thing would be the GINGERBREAD MEN SLICE N’BAKE COOKIES
I would make the chocolate cheesecake bars. Thank you!
Everything looks amazing but I think I would make the vanilla bean marble skillet first!
I would like to make the vanilla car freshener!
Vanilla Bean Challah Bread looks amazing!
I would make carrot cake with the pure vanilla extract
I would make the Rodelle Vanilla Gingerbread cookies!
I would like to make the Rodelle Vanilla Gingerbread Cookies. Thanks for the chance to enter.
I would make these delicious-sounding Chocolate Chocolate Chip Gingersnaps.
I would make a cheesecake with the vanilla bourbon extract.
I would make peanut brittle with the vanilla! Yum!
I’d make cupcakes using the vanilla!
I would love to bake tea cakes
I would bake Chocolate Cheesecake Bars (ronaleeduncan (at) aol (dot) com)
These cookies are so beautiful! Chocolate and ginger are a special match. : )
I would bake an old fashioned Butter Cake!
Its not baking but I would start off with a vanill pomegranate martini
http://rodellekitchen.com/our-recipes/vanilla-pomegranate-martini
Vanilla gingerbread cookies sounds so delicious, I love anything gingerbread!
I would make the chessboard cookies first
I think I would make the Chocolate gingerbread cookie. They seem to be really unique.
I would attenpt to make the chessboard cookiesw.
I think I would like to give these Gingerbread coookies a try. They sound do good!
I’ve been meaning to try Rodelle’s Vanilla Bean Challah bread recipe. Other than that, lot’s of cookies. I’m going to have to try the Chocolate Chocolate Chip Gingersnaps. I never imagined chocolate and ginger together but it must be good or you wouldn’t say so. It would be nice to add another variety to my usual christmas cookie collection.
I really hope you will try it! It’s really good 🙂
Thank you, Karen!
Vanilla bean challah, I love challah!
tis the season for cookies, so it’d be something round and sugary. 🙂
I would make the sugar cookies with vanilla bean frosting!
I’d make the Chessboard Cookies!
I would love to make the Rodelle Vanilla Gingerbread Cookies Recipe. It sounds amazing.
I would make Pumpkin Spiced Horchata to get the flavor of Fall, without needing canned pumpkin.
I love chocolate cake and the Sugar Bakeshop’s Chocolate Cake Recipe from Rodelle’s site looks like it would fit the bill!
Chessboard Cookies! They look great 🙂
I’d like to make the Gingersnaps first with my Mom, I love to bake with her.
I definitely would do the Cranberry Pear and Vanilla Bean Jam first!
We just made 2 batches of gingersnaps last night, I think I like your version better.
Awe, now you’ll have to try these once you finished all those gingersnaps 🙂
Thank you!
I would make a rice pudding.
Vanilla bean Panna Cotta