Chewy Ginger Cookies

The snack cabinet at my parents’ house was always filled to the brim with South Asian and East African snacks. One of the few “normal” sweets we had was a beige bag of Stauffer’s Ginger Snaps stuffed into a zip-top freezer bag to preserve their freshness. While I do love the short crispiness and spice-forward quality of a traditional ginger snap, I’m a chewy cookie girl at heart. Plus, making traditional ginger cookies from scratch generally requires molasses—an ingredient I seldom use and