Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 2 t baking soda
- 1 t cinnamon
- 1 t ginger
- ¼ t salt
- 2/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1 ¼ cups sugar, separated
- 1 egg, brought to room temperature
- ¼ cup molasses
- 1 ½ t vanilla
Directions
In a medium bowl add your dry ingredients – flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger and salt, and whisk until well combined. Set this aside.Put the oil and 1 cup of the sugar into a large bowl and mix until well-combined. Add in egg and mix again until the egg is incorporated. Pour in the molasses and vanilla do the same
Slowly incorporate the dry ingredients, mixing as you go until everything is well combined.
Line your baking sheets with parchment paper and put the remaining ¼ cup of sugar into a small bowl. Roll the dough into ping-pong sized balls, then roll each ball into the sugar.
Place the balls on your baking sheets, 6 to a sheet.
Bake at 350 for about 15 minutes or until the bottoms and edges are a nice golden brown. Take the cookies out of the oven, let them rest on the sheets a couple minutes and then transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.
Makes about 3 dozen ginger crinkles!!
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