Something sweet

Ginger Ball Cookies

Serves 60 $0.11 est. / serving

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Estimated ingredient cost$6.64For the whole recipe · ingredients used

Ginger Ball Cookies — Representative photograph; ingredients, garnishes and presentation may vary.

YOUR TIME IN THE KITCHEN

Make something good.

01
Heat the oven to 350°F. Cream the shortening and batter sugar, then beat in the egg and molasses. Keep the separately listed rolling sugar aside.
02
Mix in the flour, baking soda and chosen ground cinnamon, cloves and ginger. This working branch uses ground ginger for the otherwise unqualified source baking spice.
03
Form about 60 small 1-inch dough balls for the working batch and roll in the separately listed sugar. Space about 2 inches apart on baking sheets.
04
Bake until set, using the source 8–12 minutes as a guide, then cool. Longer baking makes a firmer cookie. The source says 5–6 dozen; this working version selects 60 cookies, one per portion.

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Recipe source

Foodista / Common Pile

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Photograph

Photo of Moravian Molasses Cookies — Foodista. Source-provided contributor credit: By Foodista member purplehousedirt

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Sugar
File:Bowl of white sugar.jpg — Douglas P Perkins. Own work
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Egg
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Flour
File:All-Purpose Flour (4107895947).jpg — Veganbaking.net from USA. All-Purpose Flour
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Baking soda, dried
File:No name sans nom baking soda.jpg — Michael Francis McCarthy. https://www.flickr.com/photos/sagamiono/4299196396/
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Cinnamon, ground
File:Cinnamon powder.jpg — Quatrostein. Own work
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Plain ground ginger
File:Thiru3.jpg — THIRUSMT2410. Own work. Original embedded copyright notice: Copyright 2011
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