Ginger Sandwich Cookies

Name: Ginger Sandwich Cookies
Prep time: 1 h 50 min
Cook time: 1 h 50 min
Total time: 1 h 50 min
Yield: 20
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking soda; 1 stick plus 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened; 473 milliliters confectioners sugar; 1 large egg, at room temperature; 355 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 2 teaspoons ground ginger; 2 Tbsps fresh lemon juice; 0 teaspoons salt; 177 milliliters sugar; 6 Tbsps unsalted butter, softened; 59 milliliters unsulfured molasses

Ginger Sandwich Cookies is a vegetarian dessert. This recipe makes 20 servings with 197 calories, 1g of protein, and 8g of fat each. This recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes. If you have baking soda, lemon juice, ground ginger, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 and position racks in the upper and lower thirds. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.

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Baking Paper

Baking Sheet

Oven

In a bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon and salt. In the bowl of a standing electric mixer fitted with the paddle, beat the butter and sugar at medium speed until fluffy, 3 minutes. Beat in the egg and molasses.

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Baking Soda

Cinnamon

Molasses

Butter

Ginger

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

Egg

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Whisk

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Add the dry ingredients and beat at low speed until incorporated, scraping down the bowl.

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Working in 2 batches, drop scant tablespoons of the dough onto the baking sheets, 3 inches apart.

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Dough

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Baking Sheet

Bake the cookies for 20 minutes, until risen and fallen and slightly firm; shift the sheets from top to bottom and front to back halfway through for even baking.

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Oven

Let cool slightly, then transfer the parchment paper to racks and let the cookies cool completely.

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Baking Paper

Bake the remaining cookies.

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In the bowl of a standing electric mixer fitted with the paddle, beat the butter with the confectioners' sugar at medium speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in the lemon juice.

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Powdered Sugar

Lemon Juice

Butter

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Hand Mixer

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Arrange the cookies in pairs on a large work surface. Spoon or pipe 1 rounded tablespoon of the lemon filling onto the flat side of half of the cookies. Sandwich with the remaining cookies, pressing them together so the filling spreads to the edge.

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Lemon