Thursday, September 17, 2009

Cinnamon Ginger Cookies and cream Cheese Frosting

Cinnamon ginger cookies
1 c butter
1 1/2 c sugar
3 Tb light corn syrup
2 eggs
3 c flour
1 c quick oats
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp ground cloves

cream butter and sugar. add corn syrup and eggs. mix well. add dry ingredients to the butter mixture and mix well. roll into teaspoon sized ball (refrigerate if dough is too soft) and bake at 350 for 6 min or until bottom edges are barely brown.
remove cookies from oven and press flat with a glass dipped in sugar (spray bottom of glass with cooking spray for first 'press' and dip back into sugar between each cookie thereafter). Let cookies cool 1 min on baking sheet before removing to colling rack.
To make sandwich cookies spread a layer of cream cheese frosting between cookies.

Cream Cheese frosting

1/4 cup butter
8 oz cream cheese
1.2 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 c powdered sugar

cream butter and powdered sugar. Add vanilla and mix until smooth. Add powdered sugar until desired consistancy is reached; you want a thick frosting to hold the cookies together. If frosting is too thick, thin with evaporated milk. If frosting is too thin, thicken by adding more powdered sugar. Spread between cookies when cookies are cool. Makes about 2 dozen sandwich cookies.

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