Advent Calendar Cookbook—Day 8: Ginger Cremes

Recipe submitted by Annie Stockmal, Graduate Assistant at Falvey Library

Ingredients:

• 2¼cup flour.
• 1 tsp. baking soda.
• ½ tsp. cloves.
• 2 tsp ginger.
• 3/4 tsp cinnamon.
• ¼ tsp salt.
• 3/4 cup butter or margarine.
• 1 cup sugar.
• 1 egg.
• ½ cup molasses.

Instructions:

• Combine flour, ginger, baking soda, cloves, cinnamon, and salt in a large bowl and set aside.
• In another large bowl, beat butter with an electric mixer on low for 30 seconds to soften.
• Add 1 cup sugar, egg, molasses.
• Stir in dry ingredients.
• Refrigerate for 1 hour.
• Shape mix in 1½ inch balls, roll in the 2 tbsp. of sugar (or flour the bottoms), and place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake at 330° for approximately 10-12 minutes.
• Allow to cool and frost with vanilla icing.