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| Triple Ginger Crackle Cookie with Pumpkin Ice-Scream |
I love everything ginger, everything cookie and everything ice cream! I've reworked my favourite gingersnap recipe from Homemaker's magazine (don't ask) with some help from Jae Steele's Get It Ripe From Around Here and Mama Pea from peasandthankyou.com .
I won't lie. I was half expecting the cookies to either turn out like cardboard or a mushy mess. I figured worst case scenario I would just eat the dough out of the bowl (what isn't there to love about molasses, three kinds of ginger, and brown sugar?) or freeze it and add it to my pumpkin ice scream. Luckily the cookies were delicious!
Ingredients
1/4 C crystallized ginger (finely chopped)
1 Tbsp fresh ginger (finely chopped)
2 C whole wheat pastry flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground ginger
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 earth balance (or butter/margarine)
1/2 C demerara sugar (or brown sugar)
1/2 C granulated sugar ( I used Camino Golden Cane Sugar) * save 1/4 C for rolling
2 Tbsp molasses (fancy)
1 flax egg (equals 1/4 C)
1/4 C pureed pumpkin (I used canned pumpkin)
Preheat oven to 350F
In a medium sized bowl (save your biggest bowl for the wet ingredients) combine flour with baking soda, ground ginger, finely chopped fresh and crystallized ginger, cinnamon and salt.
In a separate bowl beat Earth Balance with brown sugar and 1/2 C of granulated sugar with an electric mixer (if you have one) until smooth. Add molasses, pumpkin and flax egg mixing until also smooth. Placing the bowl in the refrigerator for a few minutes makes it much easier to roll the cookies into balls.
Place remaining granulated sugar in a large shallow bowl. Form small dough balls (eat one of two or maybe three). Roll balls in sugar. Place on cookie sheets (I used a baking stone that I preheated in the oven). Flatten with a fork or your hand. Place about 5 cm apart. Bake for 10 minutes. Let cool on baking sheet for about 5 minutes before moving to a cooling rack.
Enjoy soft chewy goodness!
If you manage not to eat all of the cookies ice-scream sandwiches are the next step.
I won't lie. I was half expecting the cookies to either turn out like cardboard or a mushy mess. I figured worst case scenario I would just eat the dough out of the bowl (what isn't there to love about molasses, three kinds of ginger, and brown sugar?) or freeze it and add it to my pumpkin ice scream. Luckily the cookies were delicious!
TRIPLE GINGER CRACKLE COOKIES
Makes 24 + 3 (the ones that you need to taste test)
Makes 24 + 3 (the ones that you need to taste test)
Ingredients
1/4 C crystallized ginger (finely chopped)
1 Tbsp fresh ginger (finely chopped)
2 C whole wheat pastry flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground ginger
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 earth balance (or butter/margarine)
1/2 C demerara sugar (or brown sugar)
1/2 C granulated sugar ( I used Camino Golden Cane Sugar) * save 1/4 C for rolling
2 Tbsp molasses (fancy)
1 flax egg (equals 1/4 C)
1/4 C pureed pumpkin (I used canned pumpkin)
Preheat oven to 350F
In a medium sized bowl (save your biggest bowl for the wet ingredients) combine flour with baking soda, ground ginger, finely chopped fresh and crystallized ginger, cinnamon and salt.
In a separate bowl beat Earth Balance with brown sugar and 1/2 C of granulated sugar with an electric mixer (if you have one) until smooth. Add molasses, pumpkin and flax egg mixing until also smooth. Placing the bowl in the refrigerator for a few minutes makes it much easier to roll the cookies into balls.
Place remaining granulated sugar in a large shallow bowl. Form small dough balls (eat one of two or maybe three). Roll balls in sugar. Place on cookie sheets (I used a baking stone that I preheated in the oven). Flatten with a fork or your hand. Place about 5 cm apart. Bake for 10 minutes. Let cool on baking sheet for about 5 minutes before moving to a cooling rack.
Enjoy soft chewy goodness!
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| finely chop ginger |
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| finely chop crystallized ginger |
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| make sure there are no ginger clumps...hot! |
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| add dry ingredients to wet ingredients |
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| roll balls in granulated sugar |
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| remember to flatten with fingers or fork |
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| oh my goodness! |
PUMPKIN ICE-SCREAM
(2 large servings)
I mostly just throw everything in the blender until it "looks right" (said in my grandmother's voice) but here is a tasty recipe.
Ingredients
*2 C frozen pureed pumpkin
2 C soy, almond or dairy milk (I use So Nice Unsweetened Soy)
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/8 tsp nutmeg (I used freshly ground)
1 tsp allspice
2 tsp vanilla paste (or use vanilla bean or worst case scenario vanilla extract)
**2 scoops PC Vanilla Soy Protein Powder (optional)
Blend everything together in your blender. Blend, blend and blend some more until it has the consistency of soft serve. Whatever you do make sure there are no pumpkin chunks because that's enough to send anyone over the edge. Or you could make sure that there are chunks and then you'll never have to share again. I like to add 1 3/4 C milk and then add the last 1/4 C as needed. Elbows out and enjoy!
If you are making ice-scream sandwiches it can be helpful to place the ice-scream in the freezer for 10 minutes or so until it firms up. You can store these tasty treats in the freezer for a few days if you wrap them in wax paper.
* I freeze pureed roasted pumpkin in silicone muffin cups in 1/2 C portions.
** If you choose not to use the protein powder you might want to add maple syrup or molasses as a sweetener or use a sweetened soy milk or add a very ripe frozen banana.
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| Pumpkin ice-scream on it's own |
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| blend |
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| save some for ice-scream sandwiches |
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| hide in freezer behind frozen tempeh |
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