Gingerbread Cookies without Molasses (Soft & Chewy)

5 from 2 votes

These old fashioned gingerbread cookies without molasses make perfect holiday cookies. They are quick and easy and super yummy too!

Prep Time30

Cook Time8

Total Time38

Course: Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: American

Servings: cookies

Calories: 59.7kcal

Preheat oven to 175°Celsius and line baking trays with parchment paper.
Sift the flour, ground ginger, ground cloves, ground cinnamon, baking soda and salt together and set aside.
In a separate bowl, beat butter, brown sugar until creamy. Add egg and continue to beat until the egg is well incorporated into the creamed mixture.
Add the golden syrup and beat again until well combined. Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl half way through.
Add in the sifted dry ingredients and mix until it is all well incorporated and forms a soft dough.
Wrap the dough with cling wrap and refrigerate for 10 minutes. Remove from the refrigerator and roll out between 2 plastic sheets or parchment paper to about ¾ cm thickness.
Cut the dough with a gingerbread man cookie cutter. Transfer cookies onto prepared baking trays and press in gold dragees for the gingerbread man eyes and buttons.
Bake the gingerbread cookies until they turn slightly brown, for about 6 minutes. This will yield soft and chewy cookies. Increase the baking time to 8 minutes for crispy cookies.
Remove cookies from the oven and let them rest for 2 minutes in the tray before transferring them to a wire rack. Let the cookies cool completely before storing them in an airtight container.

- This gingerbread cookie dough is rather soft. To ensure it does not stick to your rolling pin, roll it between 2 sheets of parchment paper. Also, to ensure the cookies are of consistent thickness, use 2 dowel rods on either side of the cookie dough when rolling it. Place the rolling pin on the dowel rods on both sides as you roll the dough. That way, the cookies thickness will remain constant.

- The gingerbread men cookie cutter I used was not a very large one, so each gingerbread man measured 6.5 cm long (from head to the toes) and 5 cm wide (at the widest part of the cookies which is the feet). For this size, I got total of 50 gingerbread cookies for the recipe measure below.