I can't quite believe I've had this recipe saved as a draft since July! No other text, just a list of ingredients, a method, and a picture. (which I now wish I could retake) Because, really, what can you say about a simple cookie. Delicious, certainly, but not particularly astounding, or original, or unique. Posting a cookie recipe, unless it contains some completely random unheard of ingredient, feels a bit like re-inventing the wheel. But I decided to post these anyway. After all, however simple they are, you can't go wrong with a cookie! These ones are wonderfully soft and chewy, and then you go and dunk them in melted dark chocolate and take them to a whole new level of awesomeness. What's not to love?
Makes about 24
150g butter
225g light soft brown sugar
1 egg
4 tbsp syrup from a jar of stem ginger
70g stem ginger
300g plain flour
1 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp ground ginger
200g dark chocolate, chopped
3 tbsp sunflower oil
Preheat the oven to 170°C. Cream together the butter and sugar until pale and creamy, then beat in the egg and syrup. Chop the stem ginger finely and stir into the mixture, followed by the dry ingredients. Take spoonfuls of the batter and place on a greased baking tray. Bake for 10 minutes. Leave the cookies to cool for 5 minutes on the tray, then transfer to a cooling rack. When the cookies are cool, melt the chocolate and stir in the oil, then dip each cookie into the melted chocolate, so that the chocolate goes half way up each one. Put them back on the cooling rack until the chocolate has set.
So cute! As childhood!
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