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Soft and chewy ginger nuts
Recipe by:
AMY1028
These ginger nut biscuits are wonderfully soft and chewy. I make them big, but feel free to make them into smaller biscuits if you'd like.
Ready in 50 mins
Saved by 136 cook(s)
Ingredients
Serves: 24
- 275g plain flour
- 1 dessertspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 125g butter, softened
- 200g caster sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon water
- 4 tablespoons black treacle
- 2 tablespoons caster sugar
Preparation method
Prep: 15 mins | Cook: 10 mins | Extra time: 25 mins1.
Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas mark 4. Sift together the flour, ginger, bicarbonate of soda, cinnamon, cloves and salt. Set aside.
2.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and 200g sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, then stir in the water and treacle. Gradually stir the sifted ingredients into the treacle mixture. Shape dough into walnut sized balls, and roll them in the remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar. Place the biscuits 2 inches apart onto an ungreased baking tray, and flatten slightly.
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. Store in an airtight container.
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Last updated:
23 Feb 2012
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Just made these and they are brilliant!! I didn't have any black treacle so substituted it for golden syrup. soooo yummy! Try this if you haven't yet, they are so tasty and easy.
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30 Mar 2012
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OMG, made these last night. Wasn't too sure about them as it was a messy process with the black treacle but tasted one this morning
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08 Mar 2012
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Tried this for the first time. Substituted Apricot Jam instead of Black Treacle
May skip the ground cloves in favour of Ginger next time. Rose brilliantly. Also substituted 200g of Sugar for c.20g of sweetener/sugar-free-sugar.
Will make a brilliant present for my Dad tomorrow!
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24 Dec 2011
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These are devine. So soft and flavoursome. My son and I made them to leave out for Santa but I may have to eat them all myself instead, lol
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23 Dec 2011
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Super yummy. Dough moister than expected, but may have put a little too much treacle in. Stuck in fridge for 1/2 hour and that helped. Realised I have no idea what size a walnut is as I ended up with 37 small plus 4 large (4-inch) cookies. But whole family likes them (even 2-year-old who turned up her nose at store-bought ginger nuts in the past). Definitely a keeper recipe.
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04 Dec 2011
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These cookies are amazing! I am a novice baker and they turned out better than I could ever have expected. I tried to make the same recipe last week but from the american website with molasses instead of treacle and they were and absolute disaster, these were perfect though!!
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29 Nov 2011
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Really delicious, very gingery indeed!
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08 Sep 2010
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lovely chewy buiscuits and easy to make
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22 Apr 2010
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Really easy to make and really addictive once made! YUM!
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19 May 2009
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My kids adored these and I'm happy to make them homemade rather than get shop bought. Nice and chewy and great with a cuppa too. thank you
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28 Jan 2009
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