Triple X Ginger Cookies
photo by Tinkerbell
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
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18 big cookies
- Serves:
- 18
ingredients
- 3⁄4 cup butter
- 1⁄2 cup dark brown sugar (packed)
- 1⁄2 cup light brown sugar (packed)
- 1 egg
- 1⁄4 cup molasses
- 2 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons fresh ginger (minced)
- 1⁄2 cup crystallized ginger (a.k.a. crystallized ginger, finely chopped)
directions
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and brown sugars until smooth. Beat in the egg and molasses.
- In a small mixing bowl, combine the flour, ground ginger, baking soda, and salt.
- Stir the flour mixture into the molasses mixture using a wooden spoon (or your mixer).
- Mix in the fresh and crystallized gingers.
- Cover, and refrigerate dough for at least 2 hours, or overnight. Once chilled, you can easily form the dough into a "kielbasa thick" sausage kind of form -- then you can easily cut even-sized cookies (one inch wide will make nice big cookies).
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Shape dough into 1 inch balls, and place about 2 inches apart onto a non-greased cookie sheet.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until lightly browned. Cool on wire racks.
- Feel free immediately as you take them from the oven to sprinkle spiced sugar over the cookies. To make spiced sugar mix 1/4 cup sugar with 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp ginger, 1/4 tsp cloves, 1/4 tsp dried orange peel. This spiced sugar is also great on oatmeal!
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Reviews
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Holy Triple Ginger, Batman! I love these cookies, but you have to like ginger. I used recipe#102933 in these cookies & the homemade really made a difference. I chopped it very fine, like Grape Nuts cereal but I think I'll reduce the amount of fresh ginger to 1 Tablespoon next time. I made the cookies for DH & DS's X-Box party on Saturday. I think they're going to go over well. Thanks for posting, Svenska!
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Married over a year, baby due any day now! Wife is Swedish (hence the name) hubby = American!