Ginger Snap Cookie

Ginger snap cookies are a type of gingerbread cookie. They are quite hard but very crispy. The name ginger snap comes from the sound that the cookie produces when broken into half. The ginger snap is a healthy and nutritious cookie and uses wheat flour, egg whites, brown sugar, molasses and a variety of spices like clove, nutmeg, and cinnamon apart from ginger itself. Ginger snaps are often called gingernuts in England.