recipe*: Ginger Crinkles ~ vegan

[Guest guest]

Here is a recipe that I successfully converted to

vegan when I had some friends with a vegan son

come to visit me here in Oregon.

These always get rave reviews and they make the

whole house smell like Xmas.

 

Ginger Crinkles

 

1 cup soy margarine, softened

1 1/2 cups granulated sugar

1/4 cup applesauce

2 Tbs dark corn syrup

1/2 cup molasses

3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

2 tsp baking soda

2 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

1/4 tsp ground cloves

1/2 tsp salt

*1/4 cup granulated sugar, for coating

 

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Measure the first 5 ingredients into a large

bowl. Beat

with electric mixer on low speed until just blended. Beat on medium speed until

smooth

 

2. Add the next 6 ingredients. Stir with a mixing spoon until moistened. Roll

into 1 1/2

inch balls

 

3. Put the second amount of sugar in a small bowl. Roll the balls in the sugar

until

completely coated. Arrange the balls 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie

sheet. Bake in

oven for 12 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to set on cookie sheets for 2

minutes

before removing them to a wire cooling rack.

 

Yield: about 3 1/2 dozen cookies

 

~ PT ~

 

" In the bleak midwinter

Frosty wind made moan,

Earth stood hard as iron,

Water like a stone;

Snow had fallen, snow on snow,

Snow on snow,

In the bleak midwinter,

Long ago. "

~  Christina Rossetti, A Christmas Carol