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Gingerbread latte cookies drizzled with icing scattered on parchment paper.

Gingerbread Latte Cookies

Author: Gail Ng
The chewiest gingerbread latte cookies with plenty of spiced gingerbread and coffee flavour
4.88 from 24 votes
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Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Chilling Time 15 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Yield 12 cookies
Category Dessert
Cuisine American

Equipment

Ingredients
  

Cookies

  • 250 g all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 tablespoon espresso powder
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
  • ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 150 g unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
  • 100 g brown sugar
  • 50 g granulated sugar
  • 100 g cooking molasses
  • 1 large egg, room temperature
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

For rolling

  • 30 g granulated sugar

Icing (optional)

  • 40 g powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon milk, dairy or non-dairy
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions
 

Cookies

  • Prep: Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment and set aside.
  • Dry mixture: In a medium bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, espresso powder, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and salt. Set aside.
    Left to right: dry ingredients in a bowl, stirring dry ingredients in a bowl.
  • Cream butter and sugars: In a large mixing bowl, use an electric hand mixer to beat softened butter on medium speed until it becomes very creamy and pale in colour. Add the granulated sugar and brown sugar and cream together until fluffy.
    Left to right: sugars in a bowl of butter, creaming butter and sugar together with a hand mixer.
  • Wet mixture: Add the molasses, egg, and vanilla extract and beat together until combined.
    Left to right: molasses and egg in a bowl of creamed butter and sugar, mixing wet mixture with a hand mixer.
  • Add dry to wet mixture: Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix until the cookie dough is just combined.
    Left to right: flour in a bowl of wet mixture, mixing cookie dough with a hand mixer.
  • Scoop cookie dough - Use a 3-tablespoon cookie scooper to scoop the cookie dough and release it on a cutting board lined with a scrap sheet of parchment paper.
    Left to right: scooping cookie dough with a cookie scoop, released cookie dough balls from scooper onto parchment paper.
  • Chill - Chill the whole board of cookie dough in the fridge for about 15 minutes, just until the outside is dry to the touch so that they're easier to roll in your hands without sticking.
  • Roll in sugar: Roll each cookie dough ball in between your hands until they form a perfect ball. Roll each ball in granulated sugar until they're all coated. Place the balls on your lined baking sheet, leaving about 2" in between each ball to allow for spreading.
    Left to right: rolling a ball of cookie dough in between hands, rolling a cookie dough ball in sugar.
  • Bake: Bake cookies for 10-11 minutes or until they're puffy but still very soft. After taking them out of the oven, bang the baking sheet against a wire rack once to release the puffiness and create cracks on the cookies.
  • Cool: Let them cool on the baking sheet for about 10 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.

Icing (optional)

  • Mix: In a small bowl, stir together powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla extract until it becomes a thick but pourable consistency.
    Left to right: icing ingredients in a bowl, icing dripping off of a spoon into a bowl.
  • Drizzle: Transfer the icing to a piping bag or use a spoon to drizzle it on top of the cookies.
    Left to right: piping icing on top of gingerbread cookies, close-up of piping icing on top of a cookie.

Nutrition

Calories: 272kcal | Carbohydrates: 41g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 41mg | Sodium: 153mg | Potassium: 184mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 25g | Vitamin A: 334IU | Vitamin C: 0.01mg | Calcium: 36mg | Iron: 2mg
Keywords chewy gingerbread cookies, gingerbread latte cookies, gingerbread sugar cookies, soft gingerbread cookies
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