Adventures in Cooking: honey spice cookies

[alpharaposa]

For the holidays, I went hunting for a whole wheat, honey cookie with no refined sugar at all. I adapted a whole wheat, honey, chocolate chip recipe to remove the chips. I think they turned out delicious. Very soft, too. But huge.

Ingredients
3 Cups Whole Wheat Flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 sticks butter, softened
1 1/2 cups honey
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 - 2 cups chopped walnuts

PREPARATION
1. Sift together flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and all the spices.
2. Preheat oven to 325. Beat butter and honey with a mixer on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Beat in eggs one at a time. Add vanilla. Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture; beat until combined. Mix in nuts.
3. Drop dough by heaping tablespoon onto parchment lined baking sheets, spacing about 2 inches apart. Bake until golden around edges but soft in middle, about 13-15 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes. Transfer cookies to a wire rack, and let cool completely.

Makes 20

Make Ahead
Dough can be refrigerated for up to 5 days. Cookies can be stored at room temperature for up to 3 days.

These make fragrant cookies with great aroma. The ginger is noticeable! They also have that lovely, warm honey taste.

Comments

[greylistening.livejournal.com]

YUM.

[stryck.livejournal.com]

To make cookies that spread less, add:
1 cup flour

Remove:
baking powder

Do not mix butter without honey. Just mix together. Bake at same temperature for 15-17 minutes.

For less fragrant but more "candy" spice flavor, use coriander instead of ginger.

[stryck.livejournal.com]

Increase cinnamon to 2 tsp, allspice to 1 tsp, ginger/coriander to 1 tsp, nutmeg to 1/2 tsp