Frosted Ginger Spice Cookies
The perfect holiday baking cookie recipe – Frosted Ginger Spice Cookies – easy and delicious + recipes for over a dozen more!
Cookies! Cookies! Cookies!
This is my favorite time of year. I love the lights, the sounds, the music and most of all, I love the baking.
I love having Christmas music playing, my tree all lit up and the warmth of my kitchen, as I bake and my house fills with the wonderous scents of the season.
These Frosted Ginger Spice Cookies fill my house with the aroma of Christmas everytime we bake them.
I am blessed to be part of such a great group of die-hard foodies, and this year, today we are hosting a very special Cookielicious Exchange Party.
Our party is overflowing with the BEST cookie recipes out there.
We have a huge variety of cookies that we bake up at Christmastime, but I love the crispness of these cookies.
There’s the sweet, spicy aroma and flavor – a graham/gingerbread treat that literally melts filling your mouth with spicy goodness.
While we typically use a chocolate frosting, this year we opted for a simple white frosting that lends an extra sweetness to the cookies and allows all of the flavor to shine through.
This #Cookielicious party kicks off a month long look into our holiday baking, as I invite you into my kitchen.
I plan to share with you, more cookie recipes than you might know what to do with.
More Holiday Cookie Recipes
- Amaretto Apricot Oatmeal Cookies
- Brown Eyed Susans
- Chocolate – Pear Biscotti
- Coffee Cake Cookies
- Dark Chocolate Mint Cake Mix Cookies
- Mudslide Cookies
- Spiked Eggnog Cookies
- Tipsy Chocolate Cherry Cookies
- Toffee Squares
Recipe for Frosted Ginger Spice Cookies
Frosted Ginger Spice Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 3/4 cups flour
- 1 Tablespoon of ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 1/2 cup of sugar
- 1/3 cup of molasses
- 1/4 cup buttermilk
- White Frosting storebought or homemade
- Sprinkles optional
Instructions
- In a medium size bowl, mix flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda and salt together.
- In a large bowl, beat together the butter, sugar and molasses until smooth.
- Add the buttermilk.
- Slowly add the dry ingredients a little at a time until combined.
- On a piece of plastic wrap or waxed paper, roll the dough flat and wrap the dough. Refrigerate for at least 10 hours.
When ready to make:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Lightly flour a cutting board and roll the dough out to about a 1/4 – 1/2 inch thick.
- Cut into any shape you’d like. Place them about an inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake cookies at 375 degrees for 15 minutes or until the cookies are puffy and golden.
- When cookies are completely cooled, ice with frosting and decorate with sprinkles.
We love ginger cookies around here–and your frosted and sprinkled version looks spectacular!!!
Love the gingerbread and love the sprinkles! Fun and festive!
These cookies are so pretty! They would be perfect for a Christmas party.
Perfect Fall Maple leaves.
These are so pretty! And I bet the frosting helps cut the “spiciness” too.
Most of the time we favor soft cookies, but when it comes to ginger cookies, there’s something wonderful about a nice and crisp cookie. Yours look so festive!
Such festive cookies! Definitely perfect for the season.
How pretty they look. What a great idea to frost them, I bet they are divine.
So pretty and festive!