Recently, I’ve been able to catch up with all of my friends because of my time off and it’s surely starting to feel like summer to me! This eighty degree+ weather makes me want to never work and just BBQ everyday. Well, that wouldn’t be too productive. I’d say the most productive things that I’ve been doing with my time off so far are finding a million additional food blogs to add to my reading list and gaining back the weight I lost from my surgery.
I’ve also been semi-obsessed with magic recently. I know what you’re thinking… “What is she.. in third grade or something?” Truth is, I’ve always been a magic fan. My parents used to buy me fun magician starter kits when I was little, but I can’t say that I ever became any good at it.
Bottom line is that I managed to find myself a person who was a magician AND a foodie! We emailed back and forth a couple times and I just had to share with you all how wonderful he is. His name is Los Angeles Magician Mike Jacobson and even has a blog where he rates french fries. Yes, you read that right.. french fries. Why didn’t I think of that? He has even been a guest on Ellen show before. You can see a bit of him here and here.
I was really inspired reading his story and talking to him because it made me realize that you really can do what you love. It’s refreshing to talk to people that are so happy with life because if you do what you love, you never have to work a day in your life. I will be a baker someday. I will have my own bakery– I will! I will! I will! Whew!
Now off to the cookies– these cookies are definitely different from the rest. They’re unique with their ginger flavor, but I think it’s quite tame, nothing too crazy. The taste might not appeal to all, but that’s just because it’s not your usual chocolate chip, peanut butter, or sugar cookie. I may have may have gone ahead of myself on this one and adapted the recipe from Eat Make Read when I really should have left it as is. By that, I mean subbing some of the white sugar for brown sugar without really thinking about the liquids that were already in it. I did also use honey instead of molasses, but that was something that I think I did right since I’m not a fan of the molasses flavor. Honey and ginger also go together quite naturally. Finally, I rolled some of the cookies in the sugar/cinnamon mix and others in turbinado sugar. Here are my adaptations, minus the subbing sugar part because I think the texture would be better as is:
- 2 cups flour
- 2 t baking powder
- 3/4 T cinnamon
- 1/2 t salt
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/4 cup candied ginger, roughly chopped
- 1/3 cup sugar
- pinch of cinnamon
- pinch of ground ginger
- Whisk flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a medium bowl.
- In a separate bowl, combine the butter, sugar, egg and honey.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry and combine well. Fold in the ginger and chill for at least 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, combine 1/3 cup sugar with a pinch of cinnamon and ground ginger in a small bowl. Preheat oven to 375° and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Once the dough has chilled, roll the dough into small Tablespoon sized balls and roll in the sugar mixture. Place on baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes.
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Yum, those cookies looks delightful!
Katie xox
Should we replace the molasses in the recipe by the honey in the ingredients?
@Elisabeth- fixed it, thanks for the heads up!
Looks great!!
I want to open a bakery too! 🙂 I’m having so much trouble finding a major since I’m a freshmen but I def. know I want a store of my own 😀
i LOVE ginger cookies!! have you tried the gingeroos from trader joes? probably not as good as these though!
Oh lawd! These sound yummy!
when are we going to hear more about nyc?!
anon- all my NYC posts are on my other blog, http://www.thedarlingfoodie.com
These cookies/photos look gorgeous. Well done.