Ginger Snaps By King Arthur Flour Food

GINGER SNAPS BY KING ARTHUR FLOUR

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Lightly grease or line 2 baking sheets with parchment.
• 2. Beat together the shortening, sugar, salt, and baking soda. Beat in the egg, then the molasses. Add the flour and spices, beating to make a smooth, fairly stiff dough.
• 3. To make the coating, combine the sugar and cinnamon, and place in a shallow pan or dish.
• 4. Drop the dough in 1" balls into the coating mixture; a teaspoon cookie scoop is perfect here. Roll the balls in the sugar to coat, then transfer them to the prepared baking sheets, leaving at least 1 1/2" between them; they'll spread as they bake.
• 5. Bake the cookies for 11 minutes for cookies that are crisp around the edges and "bendy" in the center. Bake for 13 minutes for cookies that are crisp/crunchy all the way through.
• 6. Remove the cookies from the oven, and cool right on the pan, or on a rack. Cool completely, then store tightly wrapped at room temperature.
• 7. * Can you substitute butter for the vegetable shortening? Yes; but the cookies will be soft, not crisp.

KING ARTHUR FLOUR GINGERSNAPS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375°F Lightly grease (or line with parchment) two baking sheets.
• Beat together the shortening, sugar, salt, and baking soda.
• Beat in the egg, then the molasses.
• Add the flour and spices, beating to make a smooth, fairly stiff dough.
• To make the coating, combine the sugar and cinnamon, and place in a shallow pan or dish.
• Drop the dough in 1" balls into the cinnamon-sugar mixture; a teaspoon cookie scoop is perfect here.
• Roll the balls in the sugar to coat, then transfer them to the prepared baking sheets, leaving at least 1 1/2" between them; they'll spread as they bake.
• Bake the cookies for 11 minutes, for cookies that are crisp around the edges, and "bendy" in the center. Bake for 13 minutes, for cookies that are crisp/crunchy all the way through.
• Remove the cookies from the oven, and cool right on the pan, or on a rack. Cool completely, then store tightly wrapped, at room temperature.

MOM'S GINGER SNAPS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• In a large bowl, mix together the brown sugar, oil, molasses, and egg. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt, cloves, cinnamon, and ginger; stir into the molasses mixture. Roll dough into 1 1/4 inch balls. Roll each ball in white sugar before placing 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
• Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in preheated oven, or until center is firm. Cool on wire racks.

ENGLISH GINGER SNAPS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cream the butter and the sugar. Sift in the flour with the baking soda and add the salt. Mix together the ginger, cloves and cinnamon and set aside. Beat the egg, vinegar, spice mixture, molasses and flour into the creamed butter.
• Using your hands, shape the dough into balls one inch in diameter. Place them an inch apart on a baking sheet. Slightly flatten the balls with the wet prongs of a fork. Press again, with the prongs at right angles to the mark already made on the cookies, making a crosshatch pattern. The cookies should be about one-half inch high. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes.
• Let the cookies cool on the baking sheets for five minutes. Then remove them with a spatula and cool on a rack.

GINGERBREAD (FROM KING ARTHUR FLOUR)

Steps:

• Grease and flour a 9" square pan. Preheat the oven to 350°F
• In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg.
• Melt the butter in a heatproof measuring cup. Add the molasses to the cup, and pour into the dry ingredients in the bowl, mixing to moisten.
• Add the water, stirring until everything is moistened. Whisk together the egg and buttermilk. Stir into the batter until it's evenly combined. Stir in the crystallized ginger.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan, and bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until the cake just begins to pull away from the edge of the pan.
• Remove from the oven and cool on a rack for 15 minutes before slicing; gingerbread is best served warm with whipped cream or ice cream.

CRUNCHY GINGER SNAPS (SIMILAR TO ARNOTTS GINGERNUT)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180C (350 F) or 170C if using gas or fan forced oven.
• Cream the first three ingredients in a bowl.
• In another bowl, combine the last four ingredients.
• Mix together til combined, but don't overmix.
• Bake teaspoonfuls on a greased tray for 10 mins, or until the entire biscuit is golden brown. If you only cook til it has golden edges you will get a chewy biscuit. It needs to be the same deep golden brown over the whole biscuit.
• Cool for a couple of minutes on the tray, and then lift to a rack. Store when totally cool in an airtight container.