Cold November Rain Cookies- Pomegranate Ginger Snaps

There is a soft rain falling, not even really rain, just a cloud brought down to earth and even though I haven’t had breakfast yet I’m going to bake some cookies. Some spicy, gingery, these have to be made every year or there will be protests cookies

Tuba Christmas rehearsals have been going on at our house for the past few weeks (they are getting better, I can tell what songs they are playing now!). Tuba Christmas makes me think of gingersnaps- the cookies eagerly consumed after a long afternoon of standing out in the cold/rain/cold proving how much I really do love all the horn players in my life. No hot toddy today before breakfast but the cookies, I can justify the cookies.

Coated in sugar and ready to bake.

Pomegranate Ginger Snaps-

adapted from Sheila Lukin’s All Around The World cookbook

ingredients

• • 12 T (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter
  • 1/4 cup pomegranate molasses
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 cup sugar, plus extra for rolling
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 2 1/4 tsp ground ginger
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
  • 1/4 tsp ground cloves
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 large, lightly beaten egg
  • 2 T minced or sliced candied ginger (optional, for garnish)

instructions 

1. 1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
   2. Melt butter in a saucepan. Remove from heat, and mix in molasses. Let cool.
   3. Sift all dry ingredients together.
   4. Once the butter mixture has cooled enough so you don’t cook the egg, add the egg and mix.
   5. Combine the wet and dry mixtures and stir until thoroughly combined. Cover and refrigerate until firm- thirty minutes or so.
   6. Fill a shallow dish with sugar (vanilla sugar if you have it). Roll the dough into 1 inch balls, folding in a bit of candied ginger, if desired- then Roll in sugar and place 2 inches apart on un-greased baking sheet.
   7. Bake for 10 minutes–until the bottoms of the cookies are just brown. Cool on baking sheets for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool fully.

Additional Notes:

I almost always cook half of the cookies longer than the recommended time. To day I sort of forgot I had left them in the oven so some cooked an extra 5 or six minutes. Whoops. Dark and crispy but still not burned- whew.

The pomegranate molasses adds a subtle tang both on the nose and the palette but isn’t recognizable, to me, as pomegranate. The original recipe calls for regular molasses and those are wonderful too, I just happen to have a languishing bottle of the tangy pomegranate molasses in the fridge.

As with most recipes that call for clove and nutmeg I almost always add a bit (1/4 tsp) of the garam masalla spice blend

Pomegranate Molasses Ginger Snaps

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Prep Time 5 mins

Cook Time 10 mins

resting time 30 mins

Total Time 15 mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine Baking

Ingredients

  

• 12 T 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter
• 1/4 cup pomegranate molasses
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 cup sugar plus extra for rolling
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 2 1/4 tsp ground ginger
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp ground cloves
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 large lightly beaten egg
• 2 T minced or sliced candied ginger optional, for garnish

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Melt butter in a saucepan. Remove from heat, and mix in molasses. Let cool.
• Sift all dry ingredients together.
• Once the butter mixture has cooled enough so you don't cook the egg, add the egg and mix.
• Combine the wet and dry mixtures and stir until thoroughly combined. Cover and refrigerate until firm- thirty minutes or so.
• Fill a shallow dish with sugar (vanilla sugar if you have it). Roll the dough into 1 inch balls, folding in a bit of candied ginger, if desired- then Roll in sugar and place 2 inches apart on un-greased baking sheet.
• Bake for 10 minutes--until the bottoms of the cookies are just brown. Cool on baking sheets for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool fully.

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