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White Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies

White Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies

I am excited to be a part of The Holiday Recipe Club Blog Hop that Erin at Big Fat Baker has been putting together.  We were all given 3 flavors (peppermint, eggnog, and gingerbread) for this round.  Our job is to then make something using one of those 3 flavors.  I had a hard time picking!  I love chocolate and peppermint together this time of year.  But, in the end I decided to go with Gingerbread.  It is fairly new to me.  I mean I have had a Ginger Snap before, and a Gingerbread Man Cookie, but I have never baked it myself.  It is a very classic Christmas flavor to me, just not something I crave.  That was until I saw this recipe by Hanging on by a Needle and Thread.  I knew immediately I had to make these!

White Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies

I had to make adjustments for the altitude, so I was nervous how they would turn out.  But they were thick and chewy, exactly how I like my cookies!  I may have figured out this high altitude baking thing.  I say that, and the next thing I bake is not going to turn out!  That, and I haven’t tried cake yet, I hear that is the hardest to get to turn out! Note that my altitude adjustments are in parenthesis in the recipe below.

These cookies are full of the gingerbread flavor with plenty of sweetness from the white chocolate chips.  Perfect to leave out for Santa!


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White Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
20 mins
 
Spicy chewy gingerbread cookies with white chocolate chips
Servings: 36
Ingredients
  • 1 cup shortening
  • 1 1/2 cups brown sugar (minus 1 Tbls)
  • 1 egg (plus 1 egg)
  • 1/3 cups molasses
  • 3 cups flour (plus 3 Tbls)
  • 2 tsp baking soda (minus 1/4 tsp)
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 1/2 tsp ground ginger
  • 1/2 ground cloves
  • 1 package white chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. In large bowl, mix shortening, brown sugar, egg, and molasses until creamy. Stir in flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger and cloves until mixture is well blended. By hand, stir in white chocolate chips.
  3. Drop spoonfuls onto a cookie sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Cool on wire racks.
Recipe Notes
Recipe From Hanging on by a Needle and Thread

If baking at higher than 3500 feet, make the adjustments noted in parenthesis in the recipe.

 

White Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies

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  3. Aahhhhhh, seriously you’ve got to stop posting all these amazing sweets recipes Erin! When I am going to have to bake all of these? I love the gingerbread/white chocolate combo…I only wish I had thought of it first. 🙂 Another winner!

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  6. I am so glad you were able to participate in the blog hop! These gingerbread cookies sound delicious. Nice, thick and chewy is perfect! My BF would be so happy if I could find him the time to make him these, he loves white chocolate in anything. I am so afraid to move the mountains for fear of high altitude baking! (I’m calling you if I ever find myself in that situation!)

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  11. I love gingerbread! The taste and smell really get me in the Christmas spirit. These cookies sound delicious, and I’m sure Santa would gobble them up in no time. 😉

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  12. What a great event and cookie!! I am really enjoying all the holiday Christmas cookies and desserts. Liz is right, you do rock when it comes to cookies and bars. : )

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  17. I love gingerbread! I love to make pumpkin gingerbread this time of year with honey butter. This will be something great to try. Never thought of using white chocolate. Nice going!

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  18. These do look like a hearty cookie for the holidays, love the crackly look with all the chips peeking out-yum! The altitude difference must be a pain, but I am sure that will become very familiar in a very short time! Have a nice evening.

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  19. erin! we have the similar though about christmas baking today, I do a ginger posting to! YaY!
    I think the ginger flavor is around the world this month don’t u agree? 🙂
    Oh and this! I always loves how ginger and choco merried together, and this white one is looks preety!
    Tq fr sharing! 😉

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  26. If you want a recipe that works every time at altitude, try yoghurt cake. I made it every day for 4 months whilst I was working in a chalet in the Alps, and the only ones that went wrong were when we missed out ingredients! The funny thing is it doesn’t work as well when it’s not at altitude!

    1 yoghurt (just an ordinary multipack sized yoghurt pot) – empty it into the bowl and then use the pot for your measurements. Try different flavours for different flavour cakes.
    1 pot of oil (we used vegetable oil I do believe.. but it worked with olive oil when we ran out!)
    2 pots of sugar
    3 pots of flour
    3 eggs
    Any ingredients you want to add. It’s fun to play around with it!

    Mix it all together in a bowl and stick in the oven at 180C until cooked.

    Pinned your cookies to my pinterest <- the main point of my comment!!

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  31. What a cool blog hop challenge! I love the sound of these cookies. White chocolate and gingerbread cookies. Yeah, I could leave a plate of crumbs! If I don’t get back here before the holidays I hope you and your family have a great Christmas!

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