Love these cookies! Based on other reviews, I used butter instead of margarine and I added 1/4 cup of extra flour. My trick for this type of cookie (like Snickerdoodles) is to use a small cookie scoop to drop the dough directly into a small bowl with sugar in it, then swirl the dough around in the bowl to coat. You won't get your fingers sticky.

Very good. I added an extra 1/4 cup flour after reading some reviews of the dough being too sticky. I used my cookie scoop and got about 48 cookies.

These were good but abit bland and pale to what I am used to. If I make them again I will add more spices.

Made no changes to this -Sensational!!!

These cookies are great! I've made them many times and they are quite addictive.

Absolutely lovely. Made it exactly as stated for perfectly soft, sweet, spicy, and chewy ginger cookies. Bravo!

excellent. I used butter for margarine, fresh mandarin juice for water, and fresh grated ginger for ground dried ginger. Then I doubled the recipe. I baked half the dough tonight and am letting the other half rest for fresh cookies tomorrow. The neighbors who shared these with me tonight suggested I quit my day job! The butter flavour comes through nicely.

These are AWESOME!! Made them for a cookie exchange. Everybody loved them. My kids love them too.

Outstanding! Simply outstanding! This is my favorite cookie recipe I've come across. The aroma that fills the house while they are baking is heavenly on a chilly fall day! This recipe is a keeper! Thank you!

So good and easy!

Good and chewy! They expand quite a bit in the oven so unless you don't mind your cookies running into each other then give them a little more space then usual. I added a little bit of pepper - a dash (I know, crazy! My mother does it and it's amazing) to make them spicier.

My only complaint on these is that you have to make a really big batch if I want to take them anywhere because I eat so many as they are cooling. We had some friends over and I was making these to take to work and had to restart and make another batch because our friends (and us, to be fair) kept eating them as we were catching up. These definately are close to Best Cookie Ever.

These where really good! I took them to a party and EVERYONE LOVED THEM!!! I will make these again!!!!

These cookies truly were some of the best ginger cookies I've tasted. I'm not sure where the "BIG" comes in though. Mine were just the average size. I also used the orange juice instead of water. I think it's very important to note that the dough should be refrigerated before forming into balls. This type of cookie always needs this step, and it might have been an oversight. These stayed soft right up to the end (which wasn't too long). Truly a keeper!

Very yummy! I made about 12 per pan, and my plate of cookies was always almost all gobbled up before the next one came out of the oven! Great, soft, chewy cookies.

These are so good. Rating a 5 because I didn't change a thing!

Wonderful, wonderful flavor, but I made as directed and had very flat cookies. I will try refrigerating the dough for a little while next time - all my kids liked it. I'm a gingerbread fanatic so I'm all about the flavor anyway.

Everyone loved this!! I didn't have an orange but I squeezed aboutn 2 tbsp of a mandarine orange to bring out the ginger flavor and actually grated about 3 tbsp of fresh ginger - FABULOUS!! The flavor was consistent in ever bite of the cookie! Sprinkled sugar over the cookies right before placing them on the cooling rack after about 5 minutes of cooling down.

These are my husbands new favorite. Great holiday cookie. We ate them for breakfast.......makes the whole house smell like Christmas! They also get better after a day or two!

These cookies were amazing! I followed the recipe exactly and they turned out great.