Ginger Soft Cookies
My boyfriend relocated to Colorado for a few months which became the perfect excuse to go travelling through the South West. I highly recommend travelling to Colorado, it definately has a lot to offer and a lot to do. We were able to go horse backriding in the Navajo Nation, snow mobiling in the Colorado Mountains, take a swim in natural hot springs, and visit lost Indian dwellings at Mesa Verde.
In their common grocery store, City Market, they have these ginger soft cookies and they taste amazing. Its the perfect blend of sweet and tangy with a moist, dense dough. They are truely addicting and are as easy to come by as the disguisting sugar cookies with equal-part frosting that we find in California super markets.
So, I wanted to find a special way to welcome him back to California so I decided that his favorite Ginger Soft Cookies would be the perfect way. I even brought some to him when I picked him up at the airport. It took a little while to find some molasses (Don't try Trader Joe's, look for them in the cooking aisles in regular supermarkets.) I found the recipe on Food.com. A lot of the reviews said to add more flour, bake longer, etc... but I was very lucky to have it work out for me and the results were amazing. I do recommend making the cookies small, less than one inch as they are very dense. Also, the cloves add quite a kick, if you don't want that, I would recommend decreasing it. Also, the cookies stay fresh. I put them in a ziploc bag and they tasted just like they were fresh from the oven!
To remain true my blog and myself, there was a disaster as there always is. This time it wasn't the food that suffered but rather my beloved tiny kitchen. I managed to coat the entire kitchen in sugar when I was coating the cookies. It did require a deep clean but it is now back to normal.
By: Cookin-jo
Ingredients:
2 1/4 cups flour
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon clove
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup butter, at room temperature
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup molasses
1/4 cup sugar
Directions:
1 Combine flour, ginger, soda, cinnamon, cloves and salt. Set aside.
2 Beat butter 30 seconds, until soft.
3 Add sugar and beat until fluffy.
4 Add egg and molasses and beat well.
5 Add 1/2 the flour mixture and stir in, then stir in the rest of the flour mixture.
6 The dough should be at a consistency that you can roll it with your hands into balls. I often have to add quite a bit more flour.
7 Roll into 1 inch balls, then roll the balls in sugar.
8 Place cookes 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 8-11 minutes. Do not brown! The cookies should be almost underbaked in the middle.
9 Let, cool 2 minutes and transfer to a cooling rack. Store in cookie tins.
