It takes a lot to beat the comfort of eating a ginger biscuit with a cup of tea and this recipe does just the trick. It you prefer a bit more of a bite to your ginger biscuit, just increase the amount of ground ginger. These biscuits also make for a great homemade holiday gift for family and friends, which you can package with some other Christmastime treats like Fruit Squares, Custard Cookies, Fruity Biscuits, Date Balls, Pecan Nut Biscuits and Short Bread.
Ginger Biscuits
Ingredients
250ml butter
250ml white sugar
250ml golden syrup
50ml ground ginger
10ml bicarbonate of soda
12.5ml milk
4 cups cake flour
5ml salt
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Mix the butter, sugar, syrup and ginger together.
- Mix the bicarbonate of soda with the milk and stir into the butter mixture.
- Add the flour and salt and mix well.
- Make small balls and place on a baking sheet and flatten with a fork.
- Bake for approximately 10 minutes until golden brown.
Submitted by: Mandy Frielinghaus, Mauritius
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May be just the thing for me to bake today, suntanning being out of the question. Have taken a rain-check with the lunch guests.
Tell you what, I will do the sun tanning for you today if you have a ginger biscuit or two for me. 😉 Pity about having to take a “rain”-check with your guests though.
These look yummy. Nice post
Thanks Babygirl. 🙂
I love ginger cookies with coffee or tea! Reminds me of my ex-colleauges where we never did miss a coffee break in where I used to work.
Sounds like a great place to have worked. 😉
Now there’s a coincidence, my husband has been asking me to bake ginger biscuits all week! Thank you Mandy. I will have a go at these this afternoon!
Brilliant stuff. I would love to hear how you enjoy them.
I think these ginger cookies are going to be so amazing in the old afternoon with hot cup of tea. I just love the aroma of ginger 🙂
The aroma of ginger always reminds me of Christmastime. 😀
I keep thinking that these would make a great crumb pie crust! What do you think?
Oh yes absolutely! What were you thinking for a filling? What about a Cheese Cake with a topping of berries of sorts…
Wouldn’t a pumpkin pie in a ginger cookie crust be delicious too? Mmm. Pumpkin cheesecake sounds like a great idea too. 🙂
Fabulous ideas! 😀
send some over please! I am aiming to bake every day of my holidays xxx
Special deliver is on it’s way. 😉 It’s way too hot here to bake very day. 😦
Ginger biscuits! That’s what I feel like today – I adore ginger! Thanks Mandy.. 🙂
Hi Celia, ginger biscuits are one of my favourites and I love the smell that wafts through the house when they baking.
ginger is the perfect flavor for the holidays, great biscuit..I would love these in the morning
sweetlife
Hi Sweetlife, thanks. They are truly a fabulous biscuit.
I wish you could be here and cook for me!! Can I adopt you? 😉
Aah Rita, you are so kind. I am not sure that my husband would be willing to let me go. Maybe I could just come and visit for a while. 😀
Hi Mandy! This Texas girl clicked on this recipe for ginger biscuits thinking I was going to see a fluffy biscuit laced with ginger; instead I see they are lovely cookies. 🙂 What a difference a word makes, huh? They look wonderful!
p.s. what is a pepperdew? That chutney looks great!
Hi Mamasteph, thanks for stopping by! Oh dear, sorry about the confusion with the biscuit/cookie. I am pleased you like them though 🙂 We could start a new song, You say cookies, I say biscuits, and some times I also so cookies. 😉
A peppadew is a sweet piquanté pepper and is so versatile – it can be used in salads, pastas, sauces, on pizzas, cut up and used on top of devilled eggs, with creamed cheese on crackers, in risottos and so much more. 🙂