How about a dash of ginger to your cookies? That would make for an excellent accompaniment for your hot cup of tea. Try this 'hot cookie' by all means, you will relish it!
Ingredients
2 ¼ cups white flour
2 tsp dry ginger powder
1 tsp baking soda
¾ tsp cinnamon, powdered
½ tsp cloves, powdered
¼ tsp salt
¾ cup salt-less butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 eggs
1 tbsp water
¾ cup jaggery, melted and strained
Preparation
Pre heat oven to 350—¦F.
Sift the white flour, dry ginger powder, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and salt and keep aside.
Combine the butter and sugar (keeping aside 2 tbsp of sugar) to a smooth paste.
Beat in the eggs.
Mix in the water and jaggery and slowly fold in the white flour.
Wrap the dough in a plastic wrap and keep aside for 30 minutes.
Roll out walnut sized balls from the dough and coat them with sugar.
Arrange on the baking sheet spaced 2 inches away and lightly flatten the balls.
Bake for 12€“15 minutes, allow to cool, remove from the cookie sheet and store in air tight containers.
