Title: Giant Ginger Cookies
Categories: Cookie Ginger Holiday
Yield: 4 Servings

28

Extra-large cookies

4-3/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour 3 tsp. baking soda 1/2 tsp. salt 2 tsp. cinnamon 2 tsp. ginger 1 tsp. powdered cloves 1 tsp. mustard powder 1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter 1 Tbsp. instant coffee (I used cocoa Powder) 1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup molasses 1 extra large or jumbo egg 3/4 cup milk 6-1/4 ounces (1-1/4 cups) currants *I added about a cup of walnuts

Adjust two racks to divide the oven into thirds and preheat to 350 F. degrees. Cut aluminum foil to fit cookie sheets. ** (Didn't use foil)

Sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and mustard and set aside. In the large bowl of an electric mixer cream the butter. Add the instant coffee and beat well. Then beat in the sugar. Add the molasses and beat until smooth. Add the egg and beat well; the mixture will look curdled--it's o.k. On low speed add the sifted dry ingredients in three additions alternately with the milk in two additions, scraping the bowl as necessary with a rubber spatula and beating only until smooth after each addition. Stir in the currants.

Use a heaping Tablespoon of the dough for each cookie. Make these extra-large, use as much dough as you can reasonably pile on the spoon. Place the cookies 2-1/2 to 3 inches apart on the cut aluminum foil, keeping the cookies as round and as even as possible. Slide cookie sheets under the foil.

Bake for 20 to 22 minutes, reversing the sheets a few times. Be careful the cookies on the bottom shelf don't burn. Bake until the tops of the cookies spring back sharply when lightly pressed.

Slide the foil off the sheet. With a wide metal spatula transfer to racks to cool. They will form steam as they cool and the steam will make the bottoms moist. To prevent that, raise the cooling racks by placing them on any right-side-up cake pans or mixing bowls.

**I made a frosting with vanilla sugar and water and dipped the top of each cookie in it.

From: Maida Heatter's Book of Great Cookies Shared By: Pat Stockett From: Pat Stockett Date: 12-08-96 (05:36) The Computer Workshop (40) Cooking

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