Confetti Shortbread As Well As Ginger Crinkles

Everyone loves cookies, together with they're a existent downfall for me, but making them to divulge helps. Making minor batches helps fifty-fifty more. I've made vi lilliputian batches this week, together with they almost all made it to the freezer.

2 of the batches were recipes that I variety of made up, taking guidance from vi or 8 recipes I institute online, together with using the parts I liked. They both turned out dangerously delicious.

Without farther ado...

Confetti Shortbread
This turned out to survive the perfect quantities of rosemary together with ginger without either beingness overwhelming. Delicate together with buttery, they had to survive packed away equally presently equally they were cool!
Preheat oven to 300 F

1/4 c sugar
1 stick butter
1 c all utilization flour

confetti:
1 1/2 t finely chopped (fresh) rosemary
1 T finely chopped crystallized ginger
1 t chopped dry out cherry-red rose petals
1 t cornflower petals
1 t calendula petals
(Alternatives to these flowers could survive pineapple sage blossoms, bits of saffron, 1/2 t lavender, or whatever dried, colorful edible flower.)

Cream together saccharide together with room temperature butter til fluffy.
Add flour together with mix well.

Add confetti.
Form the dough into a 2" diameter log.
Roll log inward lite chocolate-brown saccharide (I mixed it amongst the loose saccharide inward the crystallized ginger bag)
Chill until firm.

Slice 1/4" thick, together with house on parchment lined cookie sheets 1" apart.

Bake for xx - 25 minutes, until only barely browned. Turn the pan halfway through to insure fifty-fifty cooking.

Ginger Crinkles
A calendar week earlier, I dug some recipes to utilization cacao nibs together with nighttime cocoa pulverization - both of which I had "laying around," together with ginger. I came upward amongst this recipe, amongst those ii ingredients added. It was skilful - but I similar it amend without the chocolate. You mightiness desire to add together a tablespoon of each to endeavour that! These are crisp on the exterior together with chewy on the inside. The perfect ginger cookie inward my mind!
Preheat oven to 375 F

1/2 c butter
2/3 c sugar
1 egg
1/4 c dark strap molasses
1 1/2 c fllour
1 T chopped crystallized ginger
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 t cinnamon
1/4 t clove
1/4 t cardamom
pinch salt
1/8 c chopped pecans
1/2 c or together with then confectioners saccharide for rolling.

Cream butter together with saccharide together. I utilization a processor.
Add egg together with molasses.
Add spices, baking soda, together with pecans
Mix inward flour (by hand)

Chill dough for an lx minutes or so.

Roll into 1' balls. Roll those inward the confectioner's saccharide together with house 2" apart on an ungreased cookie sheet, or preferably on parchment.

Bake nigh 10 minutes, til the tops are cracked.
Makes nigh xxx 2" cookies

These are both recipes that volition survive made again!