I have been asked for this one and I ate three just writing this recipe. This is adapted from another recipe which had some mistakes I've corrected, and simplified steps. Most recipes say room temp eggs and butter; I say don't fuss. Put the dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, sugar) in a big bowl and whisk it all together well. In a mixer bowl put all the wet ingredients -butter cut into cubes, molasses, eggs- and cream until mostly butter is broken up, and then add the dry mix a cup at a time. Mix and push dry mix to the center occasionally but should be a wet ball. Using a small scoop (2 tablespoon) to put dough balls onto a parchment sheet. Press with a fork to flatten once. Leave 1.5 inch betweek cookies to spread. Don't over-bake. These are meant to be chewy but crispy, 2 dozen 3-4 inch cookies.
Preheat to 350 degrees
Wet Ingredients:
1-1/2 cups butter, salted, cut into cubes
1/2 cup dark molasses
2 large eggs (3 if small)
Dry Ingredients:
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cloves
1-1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cardamom
2 tsp baking soda
4 tsp ground ginger
2-1/4 cups white sugar
4-1/2 cups all purpose flour
Instructions
- Mix wet ingredients together with a mixer and bowl.
- Mix dry ingredients together with a whisk in a bowl.
- In the wet mix bowl, pour in dry mixture a cup at a time until a wet ball forms.
- Scoop 2 tbs sized balls onto a parchment baking sheet, pressing once with a fork to flatten, leaving 1-1/2 inch between flattened dough.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 14 minutes. Do not bake looking for "browned" edges, take them out at 14 minutes, putting the parchment off the pan.
- While cooling on the parchment, ready the next batch.
- Once the next batch is in the oven, transfer the cookies from the parchment to a rack to finish cooling.
- Cool completely before enclosing in air tight containers. Stores about 10 days. Refrigerator probably more.
I have not tried refrigerating the dough.
I have a https://a.co/d/1wj6zv4 Cuisinart stand mixer that does take the work out of beating eggs and cookie dough :-)
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