Have you ever gone to make a recipe only to realize you don’t have some of the essential ingredients? Well times like those are perfect for experimenting and daring to make your own creation.
The other day, I wanted to treat my husband to gingerbread cookies, one of his favorite treats which is usually only available around Christmas holidays. So I found a recipe and went to gather my ingredients when I realized I did not have ginger or molasses. Two key ingredients for the recipe.
Being me I was far too lazy to go to the store wanted to experiment so I worked with what I had to make a new recipe. And this is what I came up with:
Spice Cookies with Honey
Ingredients:
1 cup butter, softened
1 ½ cups brown sugar
1 egg
1 tbsp vanilla
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1 – 1 ½ tsp allspice
½ tsp salt
2 tsp honey
Step One: Cream the butter and sugar in a large bowl
Step Two: Add the egg and vanilla, mix well
Step Three: Add the remaining ingredients (flour, baking soda, cinnamon, allspice, salt, honey) and mix until a thick moist dough is formed
Step Four: Cover the dough and chill for 2 hours
Step Five: Take out dough and roll it into 1/2cm thickness. Cut out circular cookies (you can also roll the dough into balls instead)
Step Six: Place the cookies onto a cookie sheet and bake in a preheated over at 375F for 10-12 minutes
Then just serve and enjoy. Can be eaten while warm or saved for later. The texture is soft and cake-y and the spices can be altered to suit your preferred tastes. The cookies also pair really well with either vanilla ice cream or a hot chocolate!
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Have you ever run out of ingredients and had to experiment? What did you come up with?
Love trying new cookie recipes. Lately, I’ve been doing butterscotch white chocolate cookies, I’ll have to try these next!
I haven’t had butterscotch cookies in a while. I might have to make some now for nostalgia’s sake! Let me know how you like the spice cookies.
I love honey and actually I made some waffles with honey today! Thanks again for coming and linking up at The Weekend Social. All posts get pinned in our pinterest board! Please be sure to come back next week starting Thursdays at 9PM EST on culinaryflavors.gr ! I hope to see you there!
Ohh waffles with honey sounds great. It would pair wonderfully with some fruit.
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Thanks for the pin! I am definitely enjoying all the amazing recipes.