Collected works and current thoughts
Overview
I have modified a version of a great ginger snap recipe. They are tasty, and they actually can help calm your stomach.
The Basic Recipe
My wife has stomach issues, and we were not satisfied with the ginger snaps we could easily get. She found a recipe that I started using, and modified a few times. First, the original ginger snap recipe from Love and Olive Oil. All credit goes to this recipe, it’s great.
Quick List of Variations
Here are several things you might try as adjustments to this great recipe.
- Cook for 14 minutes at 290 degrees for a softer or gooey cookie (and in my case, rotate after 7 minutes because my oven is uneven)
- Amber the butter (I often nearly burn the butter by design), on my stove that.s 4.5 / 10 for about 20 - 30 minutes
- Add about 1/2-cup less flour and definitely under cook the cookies (first bullet, and probably the most important bullet)
- Use sugar in the raw instead of plain cane sugar for different texture
- More ginger (all kinds), I add maybe an extra 10 - 20% of each of the 3 kinds of ginger, they are aggressively ginger
What I do
I mostly follow the recipe as is (at least in my mind that’s what I’m doing, you might disagree, but make these damn cookies).
- start melting the butter
- peel and grate the fresh ginger
- finely chop the crystallized ginger
- mix the flour and such in an 8-cub glass measuring cup
- put the ground ginger and cinnamon in a metal salad bowl (I use for hand mixing)
- once the butter is nearly burnt, throw it in with the spices
- about now, pre-heat oven to 290
- follow the remaining steps (waiting 2 minutes to start adding the next ingredients)
- mix everything by hand using a silicon spatula
The recipe says to refrigerate for 2 hours before baking. That is fine, but don’t do that. Instead, make a small batch. Refrigerate the rest. The longest I’ve left the batter in an air-tight container in the refrigerator and still baked the dough was around 8 weeks. I don’t recommend that, but the cookies were entirely fine and neither my wife nor I got sick, so seems like the ginger was still effective.
