Cook the Book: Three-Way Gingersnaps

Name: Cook the Book: Three-Way Gingersnaps
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 60
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking soda; 2 Tbsps finely chopped crystallized ginger; 1 large egg; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 Tbsp grated fresh ginger; 3 teaspoons ground ginger; 2 Tbsps honey; 1 teaspoons salt; 237 milliliters sugar, plus more for rolling the cookies before baking; 12 Tbsps unsalted butter, softened

Cook the Book: Three-Way Gingersnaps might be just the dessert you are searching for. One serving contains 53 calories, 1g of protein, and 2g of fat. This recipe serves 60. This recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up butter, sugar, honey, and a few other things to make it today. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

Set racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and preheat to 325ºF.

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Oven

Mix the flour with the ground ginger, baking soda, and salt.

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Ginger Powder

Baking Soda

All Purpose Flour

Salt

Combine the butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat with the paddle attachment on medium speed until lightened, about 3 minutes. Beat in the egg and continue beating until smooth.

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Butter

Sugar

Egg

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Decrease the mixer speed to low and beat in half the flour mixture. Stop and scrape down the bowl and paddle.

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All Purpose Flour

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Blender

Bowl

Beat in the grated ginger, the crystallized ginger, and the honey. After they are incorporated, beat in the remaining flour mixture.

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Candied Ginger

Ginger

All Purpose Flour

Honey

Remove the bowl from the mixer and use a large rubber spatula to give a final mixing to the dough.

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Dough

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Spatula

Blender

Bowl

Roll 1/2 tablespoon of the dough between the palms of your hands to make a little sphere, then roll it in a shallow bowl of sugar.

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Dough

Sugar

Roll

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Bowl

Place it on one of the prepared pans. Continue with the remaining dough, keeping the subsequent cookies about 2 inches apart on all sides.

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Dough

Bake the gingersnaps until they spread and become deep golden, 15 to 20 minutes. After the first 10 minutes, place the pan from the lower rack on the upper one and vice versa, turning the pans from back to front at the same time. If you know that your oven gives off strong bottom heat, stack the pan on the lower rack on top of a second one for insulation.

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Gingersnap Cookies

Spread

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Oven

Frying Pan

Slide the papers off the pans to cool the cookies. If you have only one more pan of gingersnaps to bake, readjust one of the racks to the middle level for baking.

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Gingersnap Cookies

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Oven

Frying Pan