Chewy Ginger Crinkles

Dec 12 | Holiday Recipes, Holidays, Recipes

These Ginger Crinkles rank among one of my all time favourite cookies, especially at Christmas time! They're chewy, perfectly spicy and delicious!

These Ginger Crinkles rank among one of my all time favourite cookies, especially at Christmas time!  They’re chewy, perfectly spicy and delicious 🙂

Ginger Crinkles

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These Ginger Crinkles rank among one of my all time favourite cookies, especially at Christmas time! They're chewy, perfectly spicy and delicious!
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Ginger Crinkles
Servings: 3 dozen
Ingredients
  • 2/3 cup vegetable oil I replaced with coconut oil for the health benefits and it worked!
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 cup molasses
  • 1 3/4 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp ground ginger
  • 2 tsp cinnamon I add a bit more
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • sugar for rolling
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. In a large bowl, whisk oil with sugar, egg and molasses
  3. In a separate bowl, mix flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt
  4. Stir into the molasses mixture to form moist dough.
  5. Shape into 1" (or so) balls with your hands, roll in sugar and place on cookie sheet.
  6. Bake at 350 degrees until flat, cracked and browned; about 12 minutes.

These Ginger Crinkles rank among one of my all time favourite cookies, especially at Christmas time! They're chewy, perfectly spicy and delicious!

3 Ways to Resist Holiday Overspending

Dec 6 | Money Saving Tips, Holidays

Christmas is usually a tough time to stay in check financially. With all the extra activities occurring, parties and of course the gifts, we could all use some help with keeping ourselves in check. Here are three tips that will help you resist holiday overspending!

Christmas is usually a tough time to stay in check financially. Here are three tips that will help you resist holiday overspending!

Use Cash

Along with creating a budget for holiday spending, when you’re limited to using only cash, you’re way less likely to spend more than you have. When you’re out of cash, you’re out of excuses to spend.

Give homemade

Whether it’s knit, baked, or glued, any gift you make not only feels meaningful to the recipient, it can also help keep you away from the major stores and malls. In turn, keeping you away from a lot of temptation to spend!

Check out the Homemade Christmas Gift series here on Simply Frugal for some great ideas to get you started!

Plan Ahead

Take a look at your calendar for the weeks leading up to Christmas and figure out all the activities, parties and gift exchanges you’ll be attending that require you to bring something along.  Think of everything you could do to prepare ahead of time so you’re not rushing and making unnecessary stops at the store, which could lead to unnecessary spending. Freeze some sugar cookie dough so it’s ready for that cookie decorating party or available to bring to a neighborhood party.  Dig through your closet to find an outfit for the office party.  Buy or make hostess gifts to have on hand for last-minute party invitations.

The more you put your cold hard cash to good use, have fun creating and plan ahead for the Christmas season, the less likely you are to feel the effects of your overspending in January when your credit card statements will be due to arrive!  After all, now is the time to focus on celebrating the season for it’s true meaning.

What are your tips for resisting holiday overspending?

5 Christmas DIY Projects that Won’t Break the Bank

Dec 4 | Easy DIY, Holidays, Money Saving Tips

Looking to add a bit of fun or class to your Christmas decor this year?  Check out these 5 budget friendly DIY project ideas:

Make some beautiful Christmas tree snow globes by re-purposing empty canning jars!

For a neat twit on the typical Christmas village, try your hand at creating a vintage paper house village!

This snowflake wreath would be so simple and cheap since it uses only popsicle sticks, wooden disks, paint and optional glitter!

I quite like this Chalkboard Christmas tree art because you could easily use the chalkboard all year long!

Light up the outdoors or a dark corner in you home with these tomato cages wrapped in lights!

What sort of projects will you be making for your home this year?