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Five-Spice Gingersnaps

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Five-Spice Gingersnaps

Five-Spice Gingersnaps

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Equipment

  • Digital Kitchen Scale (Grams): A precise digital scale for measuring ingredients accurately. Essential for baking to ensure the right proportions and texture in your recipes.

  • Stand Mixer: A versatile stand mixer with various attachments, including a paddle and dough hook, for efficiently mixing dough.

  • Silicone Baking Mat: Non-stick, easy to clean silicone baking mat that ensures an evenly cooked bottom for your ginger snaps.

  • Rolling Pin: A wooden or marble rolling pin for evenly flattening the ginger snap dough to a uniform thickness before baking.

  • Parchment Paper Sheets: Non-stick parchment paper sheets for lining your baking sheet, making it easier to remove the ginger snaps after baking.

  • Cooling Rack: A cooling rack with a wide surface area, perfect for placing the baked ginger snaps on to cool without sticking or breaking.

  • Spice Grinder (Optional): A spice grinder to freshly grind your own five-spice blend for a personalized touch on ginger snaps if you're making them from scratch.

  • Digital Candy Thermometer: A precise digital candy thermometer to monitor the temperature of your sugar syrup when making ginger snaps.

  • Cutting Board: A large cutting board for kneading your dough, and to serve as a workspace when preparing ginger snaps.

  • Silicone Oven Mitts: Highly heat-resistant silicone oven mitts to safely handle hot baking sheets of ginger snaps.

  • Measuring Spoons (Set): A set of measuring spoons for accurately portioning out the various dry and wet ingredients in your ginger snap recipe.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour

  • 1 3/4 teaspoons Chinese five-spice powder

  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

  • 1/4 teaspoon salt

  • 3 tablespoons finely chopped crystallized ginger

  • 1 cup sugar

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Instructions

1

Instruction 1

Whisk together flour, five-spice powder, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl.
2

Instruction 2

Pulse ginger with 1/4 cup sugar in a food processor until finely ground.
3

Instruction 3

Add syrup, butter, egg, and remaining 3/4 cup sugar to processor and blend until mixture is thick and creamy, about 3 minutes. Add flour mixture and pulse just until a dough forms. Form dough into a disk and chill, wrapped in plastic wrap, at least 8 hours to allow flavors to develop.
4

Instruction 4

Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 325°F. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper.
5

Instruction 5

Quarter dough. Keeping remaining 3 pieces wrapped in plastic wrap and chilled, roll out 1 piece of dough on a lightly floured sheet of wax paper with a lightly floured rolling pin to 3/4 inch thick. (If dough becomes too soft to roll out, chill on wax paper until firm.) Cut out rounds with cutter and transfer to 1 lined baking sheet, arranging cookies about 2 inches apart.
6

Instruction 6

Bake cookies until slightly puffed and a shade darker, 10 to 12 minutes. Cool 5 minutes on sheet. If desired, make holes with piping tip near edges to hang cookies, then transfer cookies (still on parchment) to a rack to cool completely. (Cookies will flatten slightly as they cool.)
7

Instruction 7

While first batch is baking, roll out and cut another batch, arranging cookies on second lined sheet. Bake in same manner, then gather scraps and chill until dough is firm enough to reroll, 15 to 20 minutes. Make more cookies with scraps (reroll scraps only once) and remaining pieces of dough, cooling sheets and lining them with fresh parchment before using.
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Instruction 8

If using icing and coloring it, transfer small batches of icing to small bowls, 1 for each color, and tint with food coloring. Spoon each color of icing into a separate pastry bag, pressing out excess air. Twist bag firmly just above icing, then decoratively pipe icing onto cookies. Let icing dry completely (about 1 hour, depending on humidity) before serving or storing cookies.
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