South African Ginger Cookies

Zurie's Note:

Really nice ginger cookies, these, which have come a long way and are favourites for holiday times. It's a large recipe, meant for summer Christmas holidays on the sea! Please note that the cookie dough needs a couple of hours rest time in the fridge before baking. This was not added to the preparation time.

• Total Time: 40 mins
• Prep Time: 25 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 180 cookies

• 500 ml golden syrup (2 cups corn syrup will do)
• 500 g butter , soft
• 2 eggs
• 50 ml vinegar
• 50 ml dried ginger , the dried, ground spice
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground cloves
• 500 ml light brown sugar
• 8 cups flour , unsifted
• 30 g baking soda
• 2 teaspoons salt

Directions:

1. Mix the golden syrup (or corn syrup), butter, eggs, vinegar, ginger, cinnamon and cloves in a large mixing bowl.
2. Stir in the sugar.
3. Sift the flour, baking soda and salt into a bowl.
4. Mix into the syrup-sugar mixture to make a dough or batter.
5. Cover and put in fridge for a few hours.
6. Heat oven to 200 deg C/400 deg F. Grease baking tins.
7. Roll the dough between your palms into little balls the size of walnuts. Place these balls with space between them on greased baking tins.
8. Press each cookie just slightly flatter with the tines of a fork.
9. Bake about 12 - 15 mins or until nicely browned, in centre of oven.
10. Cool slightly in the tins, then cool completely on wire racks.
11. Keep in airtight tins. About 15 doz cookies.

Reviews

[Just_Ducky!!]

As the Lucky Charms fellow says, they're magically delicious and unlike Lucky Charms, these cookies really are! :D I didn't have, nor had I ever heard of, golden syrup. I halved the recipe and used 5 oz golden corn syrup and 3 oz blackstrap molasses. With the half recipe I ended up with about 72 cookies but they were pretty big. The only change I may make next time is add more ginger as I like my ginger cookies very gingery :) but we enjoyed them a lot and so did everyone that had them at the boys school potluck picnic today :D. Thanks for posting Zurie! Made for team Mischief Makers - ZWT#7, Dinner & a Movie

[katew]

Delicious and easy to do - too easy to eat too - we just loved these ! I scaled recipe back and made 24 cookies. Made for ZWT 7.

[Dreamgoddess]

I had a bit of trouble with the ingredient conversion from metric on this recipe, but I managed to muddle through. We loved the flavor of these cookies and they are very good with a cup of tea. Made for ZWT 7, Count Dracula and his Hot Bites.