Ginger Cookies ( Cooking Light )
"From Cooking Light September 2007 (originally published in March 1993)"
- Ready In:
- 42mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
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52
ingredients
- 6 tablespoons butter, softened
- 2⁄3 cup sugar, plus
- 3 tablespoons sugar, divided
- 1⁄4 cup molasses
- 1 egg
- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground mace
- cooking spray
directions
- Place butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until fluffy. Gradually add 2/3 cup sugar, beating at medium speed until light and well blended.
- Add molasses and egg; beat well.
- Combine flour and the next 4 ingredients (through mace), stirring with a whisk.
- Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture, stirring until well blended.
- Divide dough in half.
- Wrap each portion in plastic wrap, and freeze for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Shape each portion of dough into 26 (1-inch) balls.
- Roll balls in remaining 3 tablespoons sugar, and place 2 inches apart on baking sheets coated with cooking spray.
- Flatten cookies with the bottom of a glass to 1/2-inch thickness.
- Bake for 12 minutes or until lightly browned.
- Remove from pans, and cool completely on wire racks.
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Reviews
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For cookies with so little fat in them, these are really good!! They are thin, crisp, spicy cookies, each about 2 3/4 to 3 inches across, with a bit of a sugary shimmer--and a wonderful scent and flavor! My only changes were to sub whole grain pastry flour for the A/P flour, to make 48 cookies instead of 52 (it was easier to divide the dough into 48 balls than into 52), and to bake them for 10 minutes instead of 12. Also, I needed to remove the cookies from the baking sheets as quickly as possible after baking (or they stuck), and transfer them to paper towels to cool (the warm cookies were very pliable and were falling through my large-grid wire rack). All-in-all, an easy cookie to make, and an even easier one to eat! I'll definitely make these again! Thank you Vino Girl!!
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Vino Girl
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My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
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