My house smells delectable! I have been craving ginger snaps for days now. Found this (For those of you following sadistic diets like myself, the shortening can be replaced by applesauce, the all-purpose flour with whole grain spelt flour and the sugar can be reduced. They still taste delicious!)
INGREDIENTS
3/4 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup light molasses
1 egg
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoon ground ginger
2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
DIRECTIONS
1. Cream together shortening and sugar, add egg and beat until fluffy. Stir in molasses and mix well.
2. Sift all dry ingredients-twice, then add to molasses mixture and mix well
3. Using a cookie scoop or spoon scoop out spoonfuls of dough and form into round balls. Roll tops of balls in sugar. ***note: if you have replaced the shortening with applesauce the batter will be runnier. just drop tablespoon fulls onto a greased cookie sheet.
4. Place the round balls on a cookie sheet, these cookies flatten as they bake.
5. Bake for exactly 9 minutes in a preheated 350 degree (175 degree C) oven. Remove from baking sheet and cool.
8 comments:
Yum! Boy looks very happy, too!
If I didn't have to bake a chocolate cake today, I'd be making these...
Have you seen Dooce's diet posts? Remarkably like your recent ones. Also, what packaging does "light molasses" come in? Is it a syrup? Is it a paste? Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
what are light molasses anyway? Are those hickeys?
...the cookies look really good, but I'd still go for the frieten if I were on your diet!
Mmm, my favourite. I'm glad you're able to at least include those in your diet.
Molasses is a syrup made from raw sugar. It's sweet, but has a dark, slightly bitter flavor. It's a great source of iron and is what gives cornbread, baked beans and ginger snaps their distinct flavor. Believe it or not I bought mine in Delhaize, squeezed between the marshmellow fluff and mexican taco kits! ;-) You don't need much of it in recipes, but the good thing is that it keeps FOREVER!
Funny that you mentioned Dooce's diet posts-- I just went and read them (and Oprah's) and it's pretty much exactly the diet I'm following. Except I have to do it for the next 21+ years instead of just 21 days. blech.
Actually it's not all that bad, but sometimes I get a craving for four cheese pizza and pound cake.... Mmmmmmm! Butter....
I use lowfat buttermilk sometimes instead of shortening. I like the texture better than applesauce. Are you vegan, though, or just vegetarian?
I'm more or less vegan. I had to give up all dairy anyway and have decided to try and avoid eggs as well.
Every now and then I'll use them in a recipe like this one, but other than that I've decided to go cold turkey and see how it goes...
Thanks! You just "made" our breakfast!
Carol
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