My Take On Ina Garten's Ultimate Ginger Cookies

I love, love, love Ina Garten. She is my kind of cook. Not to skinny and not rich beyond reason. I will try most anything that she has kitchen tested. I might turn the "heat" down a bit on her recipe but other wise .................... with her I am good to go. I had a "hankering " for some ginger cookies the other day and just had to try her recipe. I did find that I wanted to change it a tiny bit.

Ingredients:
Sift together;
2 1/4 C. all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. cinnamon (here I always go for Vietnamese Cinnamon, good flavor and a bit on the sweet side. Penzey's Spices offers us a really nice one.)
1 1/2 tsp. of clove (here is went with 1/4 tsp. of cloves, I'm just not a great big fan of cloves, the flavor is so strong it can actually ruin a dish for me)
1/2 tsp. ginger (here again, I go to Penzey's Spices and Chinese Ginger is my choice for stir fry and for this)
1/2 tsp. nutmeg (here I purchase it whole and grate my own, fresher taste)
1/4 tsp. kosher salt

Cream together;
1 C. dark brown sugar, packed
1/4 C. veggie oil, I used canola oil as Den is allergic to all beans and peas and peanuts)

Add;
1/3 C. unsulfured molasses
1 tsp. good real vanilla, very important
1 extra lrg. egg, at room temp.

Add in the dry ingredients and beat for about 5 minutes. Now at this point to me it was looking a bit to dry to make cookies.

I added 4 Tbsp. butter, soften at this point and liked the appearance much better.

Lastly add;
1 1/4 C. chopped crystallized ginger (6oz)
Scoop the dough in tablespoon size pieces and roll them in your hand to form a ball and flatten slightly. Roll the dough ball on one side in sprackle sugar just granuated sugar. Place on a baking sheep lined with parchment paper at about 1-2 inch spacing.

Bake at 350F for 13 minutes.

The tops will be crackled and the cookies soft inside. Let the cookies cool on the sheet for 1-2 minutes and then transfer to a cooling rack.

Here is something that was kind of nice about this cookie. My husband has Barrett's Esophagus, and takes drugs to control the reflux which upset his stomach at times. The ginger in these help control that for him. He was really happy with me this morning when he tried one of these when his meds were messing with him again. He went to help an old guy with his yard and came home saying that these were great medicine for his problems this morning. Only took one. Ginger is great for the stomach and indigestion issues.