ginger snaps

Crisp molasses cookies

Ginger snaps are crisp, spicy cookies flavored with ginger and molasses.

The name comes from their tendency to break with a snap rather than bend.

They're traditionally thin and crunchy, darker than most cookies from the molasses: She dunked a ginger snap in her tea.

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crunchy · cloves · dunking · cinnamon · treacle · spices · sweets · crinkle · brown sugar · flavor · nutmeg · teatime · crisp · pungent flavor · aromatic · crackle · dough · bite

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Family

snap, ginger, snappy, snapped, snaps, snapping, gingerly, gingerbread, gingers

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Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G