Ginger Leaf Cookies

Name: Ginger Leaf Cookies
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons baking powder; 177 milliliters firmly packed dark brown sugar; 237 milliliters butter, at room temperature, plus more for pans; 3 Tbsps minced crystallized ginger; 1 large egg; 532 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 Tbsp milk; 0 teaspoons salt; 2 Tbsps About coarse sugar crystals; 2 teaspoons vanilla

Ginger Leaf Cookies requires around 45 minutes from start to finish. This recipe serves 24. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 149 calories, 2g of protein, and 8g of fat per serving. Not a lot of people really liked this dessert. Head to the store and pick up flour, salt, butter, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 and butter 2 or 3 baking sheets.

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In a large bowl with a mixer on medium speed, beat butter, sugar, and vanilla until smooth. In another bowl, whisk together flour, ginger, baking powder, and salt. Reduce speed to low and beat or stir in flour mixture until blended. Beat on medium speed until dough forms a ball. Divide dough in half.

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Baking Powder

Vanilla

Butter

Ginger

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

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Whisk

Bowl

Transfer dough to a lightly floured surface. With a lightly floured rolling pin, roll each half into a 1/8-in. thick round.

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Dough

Roll

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Cut out cookies with a floured 3- to 4-in. leaf-shaped cutter.

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Cut Out Cookies

Place cookies 1/2 in. apart on prepared pans. Gather excess dough into a ball to reroll and cut out remaining cookies.

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With the back of knife, lightly press a decorative vein pattern into cookies. In a small bowl, beat together egg and milk.

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Egg

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Brush over cookies and sprinkle with sugar.

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Sugar

Bake cookies until edges are just beginning to brown, 12 to 15 minutes, switching pan positions halfway through baking (if using a third pan, bake it separately). Cool completely on baking sheets, then transfer to an airtight container.

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