The Three Bears Triple Ginger Cookies

Let's Bake - Put on your red shoes and dance the blues

Neil has to go someplace tomorrow, 

I can't keep up where, and he asked me to make 

something for him to take.

Bon Appetit"s
Triple-Ginger Cookies

2 cups all purpose flour
 2 teaspoons baking soda
 1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger 
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves 
1 cup sugar 
3/4 cup solid vegetable shortening (preferably non-hydrogenated)
 1/4 cup mild-flavored (light) molasses 
1 large egg
 2 teaspoons minced peeled fresh ginger 
1/4 cup chopped crystallized ginger Raw sugar (for rolling) 

Three Gingers

Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 2 rimmed baking sheets with parchment. Whisk first 5 ingredients and 1/2 teaspoon salt in medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat sugar and shortening in large bowl until fluffy. ( you have to scrape down a lot )

Beat in molasses, egg, and fresh ginger. Stir in crystallized ginger, then dry ingredients.
 Fill small shallow bowl with raw sugar. Using moist hands, shape 1 teaspoonful dough into ball; roll in raw sugar. Place on prepared sheet. Repeat with remaining dough, spacing cookies 2 inches apart. Bake cookies until golden and dry-looking, about 15 minutes. Cool on sheets.

This is the first batch, made close to by the book, just added a 2 tsp of powered ginger and like double the candied ginger. They are very good - a lovely cookie - but I wanted to turn up the heat a little!

SO!
I added a lot more fresh ginger - first batch I chopped the ginger, this batch I used my little ginger grinder thing - gives you a lot more juice and:

2 tbs powered ginger

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ground cloves

1/2 tsp Cardamom

little bit of nutmeg....

not exactly right either... I should have upped the sweet a little bit

just right

Round three - about a table spoon of molasses added to the rest of the extra spicy dough. THESE are good... you could leave out the cardamom and nutmeg, sort of clouds things.. but go the extra the extra ginger, all three and up the molasses a little bit. They are more chewy .. a really good texture ( but the just by the recipe ones are VERY GOOD )

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