Gingersnap Cookies

Total Time: 12 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 4 teaspoons ground ginger
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup canola oil
• 1 large egg
• 1/4 cup molasses
• sugar (for rolling)

Recipe

• 1 place the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon and salt in a bowl.
• 2 mix together with a fork.
• 3 beat the cup of sugar with the canola oil for about two minutes, or until the mixture is uniform and pale in color.
• 4 mix in the egg and molasses. beat thoroughly.
• 5 continue to stir while adding the flour mixture 1/4 cup at a time.
• 6 for each cookie, roll 2 teaspoons of dough into a ball.
• 7 then roll the ball in sugar.
• 8 place the balls of dough on parchment-lined baking sheets, two inches apart.
• 9 bake at 350 degrees for about 12 minutes, until the cookies are just barely starting to brown around the edges and they are cracked on top. about 12 minutes.
• 10 cool on a wire rack.