Gingersnap Cookies

These sugar-coated Gingersnap cookies, with their chewy texture and spicy flavor, are said to be highly addictive. They're perfect with coffee, kids will love devouring them with a tall glass of milk, or you could even dip them in tea.

Concocted of sugar and spice and all things nice, like the pleasing tastes of ginger, cinnamon, and molasses, Gingersnap cookies have been a favorite for centuries. Since they are said to have been invented by Benedictine monks, they are a natural fit for the Sisters. Made by the Sisters of St. Benedict as part of the Monastery Baked Goods line.

Purchases of Monastery Baked Goods products help support the mission and ministries of the Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand, Indiana.

The history of Monastery Baked Goods is rooted in a love of baking among the sisters. In support of an annual German festival held in Ferdinand, the sisters started making and selling springerles, a traditional German cookie. Following some suggestions from friends and community members, the sisters experimented and created the recipe for almerles, almond-flavored cookies that have the appearance and texture of the springerle.

Later, the sisters decided to make cookies in honor of St. Hildegard, a twelfth-century mystic. The cookies were so popular that they also were added to the bakery’s offerings. Due to the interest generated by the cookies, Simply Divine Bakery was born. In 2015, the bakery was renamed “Monastery Baked Goods” to more closely relate the name to the Sisters of St. Benedict.

Ingredients: Flour, (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), white sugar, shortening, eggs, sorghum (sorghum, Invert and corn syrup), baking soda, ginger (ginger and sulfur dioxide), cinnamon, salt