GMA Recipe: Brown Sugar Ginger Crisp Cookies

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Brown Sugar Ginger Crisp Cookies
From Sara Moulton and Gourmet Magazine

Sara Moulton makes Christmas Cookies on Good Morning America

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour

3/4 teaspoon of baking powder

1/2 teaspoon of slat

2 sticks (1 cup) of unsalted, softened butter

1 cup of packed light-brown sugar

1 large egg yolk

1 teaspoon of vanilla

1/2 cup finely chopped crystalized ginger (3 oz.)

1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. degrees.

2. Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. Beat together butter and brown sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at moderate speed until pale and fluffy (about 3 minutes). Beat in yolk, vanilla and gingers. Add flour mixture and mix at low speed until just combined.

3. Drop heaping teaspoons of dough about 3 inches apart onto an ungreased baking sheets and bake in batches in middle of oven until golden, 13 - 15 minutes. Transfer them, using a metal spatula, to a baking rack to cool completely.

Recipe courtesy of Gourmet magazine, © Copyright 2001 Gourmet Magazine.