Frosted Ginger Creams
A little messy to make, but delicious. If you want simpler and plainer, skip the glaze, and they're good that way too.
Sheets ungreased Oven 350 degrees
F Time 15-20 minutes
3/4 C butter
1/2 C honey
3/4 C molasses
1 egg
Mill together:*
500 g soft wheat
1 stick cinnamon
1/2 t cloves
1/2 t allspice
1/2 t cardamom
2 t ginger
1 t soda
1 t salt
Glaze:
2 T butter, soft
1 C powdered sugar
1/4 t vanilla
milk
Cream together the butter and powdered sugar. Stir in the vanilla
and milk enough to give a thin, spreadable texture.
Cream the butter until soft. Beat in the honey and molasses
until smooth. Stir in the egg and beat again until smooth.
Whisk the dry ingredients together and stir into the creamed mixture.
Chill the dough until firm enough to roll out.
Roll out to 1/8" thick on well-floured board. Cut with plain
round cutter. Transfer cookie by cookie to ungreased cookie
sheets. Bake 15-20 minutes (depending on how crunchy you like
them) in preheated 350 degree oven.
Brush lightly with glaze before baking (for a crunchier topping) or
after (for a smoother topping. These keep extremely well, but the
topping invariably gets messy....
Simpler and plainer variation: Roll out the dough. Trim the
rough edges of the rolled-out dough, and then sprinkle with coarse
sugar. Roll lightly to press the sugar into the dough. Cut
the remainder into a simple grid of squares or diamonds with a sharp
knife. Bake as above. Just as tasty, and a lot easier.
Makes 4 dozen cookies @ 67 calories:
11% fat
84% carbos
8% protein
*Substitute 3 1/2C unbleached or whole wheat pastry flour.
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