Sarah kieffer cookies

Perfectly spiced, ginger molasses cookies with rippled edges and a chewy center. Uses the pan-banging cookie technique to get their famous look!

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If you’ve logged onto social media in the past year, chances are you’ve come across Sarah Kieffer’s pan-banging chocolate chip cookies. Thanks to a somewhat unusual technique, these cookies have picture-perfect ridges that make for a seriously striking photo. The trick that gives them their unique texture? Banging the cookie sheet tray against the counter every few minutes as the cookies bake — so that the cookies deflate and give way to a distinctive crinkled texture.

Pan-Banging Ginger Molasses Cookies | Sarah Kieffer | Vanilla Bean Blog

Chocolate chip cookies are the ultimate wonder food. Equally delicious consumed in any form: raw, cooked, overcooked-and-crispy, frozen-and-raw (thanks Ben and Jerry's), cooked-and-frozen (ice cream sandwiches), underbaked-and-melty, or simply piping hot straight out of the oven. As such, they have a unique ability to immediately satiate any mood.

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Toasted sesame oil gives these pan-banging cookies a unique and nutty flavor profile, paired with bits of bittersweet chocolate. The crisp edges are rippled and wrinkly, while the center is soft and chewy.

The Minnesota creator of The Vanilla Bean Blog has a new cookie cookbook out, and she’s flat-out the best pan banger.

Delicious sugar cookies with rippled edges and a chewy center, using the pan-banging cookie technique. Classic sugar cookie flavor elevated by bold vanilla flavors!

This year, we found the best cookies on the web for our 12 Days of Cookies, with today's cookie being The Vanilla Bean Blog's Peanut Butter Cookies.