GINGER BARS

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Categories     Cookies     Dessert     Bake     Quick & Easy

Yield Serves 30 (60 squares)

Number Of Ingredients 14

1 cup unbleached flour
1 cup almond meal
1.75 cups whole wheat flour
1.5 t baking powder
.5 t baking soda
4 t ground ginger
1 t ground cinnamon
.5 t ground cloves
1.5 sticks salted butter
1.5 cups sugar
2 eggs
.5 cup black strap molasses
2 t lemon juice
.75 cup diced candied ginger

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 350F. Line standard sized jelly roll pan with aluminum foil. Grease generously with butter. In medium bowl,whisk together dry ingredients thoroughly. Set aside. In large mixer bowl, beat butter and sugar until well-blended and fluffy. Add eggs, molasses and lemon juice, mix until well-combined. Slowly, over two minutes, add dry ingredients, scraping bowl once. Stir in chopped ginger. With rubber spatula, scrape in mounds onto prepared sheet. Wet hands with water. Using hands, spread batter evenly in pan. Bake 18-24 minutes. Cool completely before cutinng into 1.5 inch squares.

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