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Gran's Gingersnaps
Recipe by:
RuthAnn
This was my mother-in-law's recipe and my husband's favourite. Shorten or lengthen the cooking time for a softer or crisper biscuit.
Ready in 25 mins
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Ingredients
Serves: 36
- 165g butter or margarine
- 200g caster sugar
- 1 egg
- 85g treacle
- 250g plain flour
- 1 tablespoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 100g caster sugar for decoration
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Preparation method
Prep: 15 mins | Cook: 10 mins1.
Preheat the oven to 180 C / Gas mark 4.
2.
In a medium bowl, cream together the margarine and 200g sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg and treacle until well blended. Combine the flour, ginger, cinnamon, bicarbonate of soda and salt; stir into the treacle mixture to form a dough. Roll dough into 2.5cm balls and roll the balls in the remaining sugar. Place biscuits 5cm apart onto ungreased baking trays.
3.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow biscuits to cool on baking tray for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
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Last updated:
14 Apr 2013
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Easy
Went down really well, but everyone said less salt! I'd suggest only 1/4 tsp. But it went so fast I think they we're just grumpy
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14 Apr 2013
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yummmmy x so easy and tasty x
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31 Mar 2013
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Very easy recipe except I added 185g of treacle by accident so added double of everything else. Apart from that i had know problems and the biscuits were yum!
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23 Mar 2013
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Unfortunately for my waist these are absolutely delicious!
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22 Feb 2013
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Baked these yesterday as the 2nd ever batch of buscuits baked. They are so good, I might not ever need to learn another recipe. I mis-read the recipe and used 5cm balls of dough so ended up with giant cookies (they needed to bake for longer because of the size error).
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21 Oct 2012
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As my dough wasn´t solid enough to make little balls (and I didn´t want to put it on the fridge and wait) I placed it in the tray as if I was making brownies, and cut little squares once it was cooled. The result: wonderful gingerwnies!!
P.S I used half the ingredients but kept one full tablespoon of ginger (I love it!!). Didn´t add cinnamon.
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20 May 2012
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Easy
these are so easy and so perfect! THE best ginger snaps ever!
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14 May 2012
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Easy
These cookies were easy to make and came out absolutely delicious! I substituted the treacle for dark molasses. And then ate about half the batch these cookies are so addictive.
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15 Dec 2011
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Easy
These tasted great and so easy to make my children enjoyed eating them they were gone with in the day! thanks for this great recipe!
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01 Dec 2011
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Amazing. Got soooo many out of this batch, can't remember the exact figure as it was a while ago but it is a fantastic recipe. Soooo tasty.
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27 Nov 2011
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