Triple X Ginger Cookies

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter
• 1/2 cup dark brown sugar (packed)
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar (packed)
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons ground ginger
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh ginger (minced)
• 1/2 cup crystallized ginger (a.k.a. crystallized ginger, finely chopped)

Recipe

• 1 in a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and brown sugars until smooth. beat in the egg and molasses.
• 2 in a small mixing bowl, combine the flour, ground ginger, baking soda, and salt.
• 3 stir the flour mixture into the molasses mixture using a wooden spoon (or your mixer).
• 4 mix in the fresh and crystallized gingers.
• 5 cover, and refrigerate dough for at least 2 hours, or overnight. once chilled, you can easily form the dough into a "kielbasa thick" sausage kind of form -- then you can easily cut even-sized cookies (one inch wide will make nice big cookies).
• 6 preheat oven to 350 degrees f (175 degrees c).
• 7 shape dough into 1 inch balls, and place about 2 inches apart onto a non-greased cookie sheet.
• 8 bake for 8-10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until lightly browned. cool on wire racks.
• 9 feel free immediately as you take them from the oven to sprinkle spiced sugar over the cookies. to make spiced sugar mix 1/4 cup sugar with 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp ginger, 1/4 tsp cloves, 1/4 tsp dried orange peel. this spiced sugar is also great on oatmeal!