Due to some personal problems which are having me under some stress i haven´t felt like writing much, nor writing nor reading which i enjoy a lot, just troubles on my mind. But i found the time to make ginger cookies, some good ginger cookies!!! Even mini cookies for our hamsters as they also love them. Someone in the comments said she´d never tried ginger cookies, and of course i told her to give it a try as they are worth it. Of course it can depend on the ingredients you use, the recipe you have… it can change so much from one to another………………………………………………………………………..———————–

i remember i wanted to try a gingercookie which was soft, ( the cookies i make are crusty ) and i choose one with molasses. Well, the thing is that the time i was mixing the cookie i already realised the dough smelt bad bad arghhhh…. how was that possibly??? Normally the mixing of the ingredients smell so delicious! Especially when they include spices such as ginger, cinnamon mmm. I had a look and i saw the guilty thing::: molasses!!! Here in Spain is difficult to find molasses, so when i saw these ones at the supermarket i thought; ohhhh here they are!!! and bought them.. to my surprise they didn´t smell very good but nothing to imagine it would alter the result of the cookies… it did.

I wonder which are the famous molasses they use in America. Please let me know. This one i bought is made from brown sugar, of course it wears a kind of acid additive which i think might be what causes the not so good smell. I bought at the natural food parsley molasses and they taste much better. Haven´t tried them with cookies yet. I would really appreciate if someone could get me informed about the molasses stuff.

Okay enough of that, here i am gonna post the recipe for the ginger cookies, give it a try and let me know if you like them, don´t taste them when still hot, i think they taste better when they´ve already cooled,or the day after they´re done.

Ginger cookies: 500 grams flour, 200 gr sugar, ½ teasp. Salt, ½ baking soda, 2 teasp. Cinnamon, 1 teasp. Ginger, a pinch clove, 1 tablesp and half honey, 2 eggs, 150 gr butter.

Mix dry ingredients, add the wet ingredients in the order they appear and let them rest for 2 hours in the fridge.

Bake them about 10-15 minuts about 200 ºC.

I used half of the ingredients and i got about 35 cookies…. + many mini cookies for our hamsters!!!! Oh and i don´t include the 2 gingergirls that got burnt :(!

Please take care so that the cookies do not get burnt, as they should be pretty thin, since taste is much better. i always make the first bunch of cookies wider ( i don´t realise they should be thinner ) and then correct it, you will appreciate the difference in the pictures. I use a rolling pan for getting the thin texture.

This time the cookies weren´t as delicious and addictive as other times!!! i got so surprised! but come to think about it, and i know why is that. we went to one of those big supermarkets and i bought a big ginger package, since i use a lot of ginger. i saw the color was a bit different, but i never thought it would change so much the final result!! again… with these things i realise how important it is to use good quality products. The ginger i bought is supposed to be ginger, but though i added an extra teaspoon since we love the flavour, you can´t hardly appreciate it!. I don´t know what the hell they´re doing with food. I will use this for fish or meat dishes, but not for cookies!!