{"id":1403,"date":"2011-09-27T19:10:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T02:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2011-09-27T19:11:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T02:11:57","slug":"ginger-shortbread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"Ginger Shortbread"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nGinger Shortbread<\/a>, originally uploaded by super eggplant<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

\nYou know, these are the cookies you take to a gathering, and everyone kind of looks at them like, meh, they look kind of sad and lame, but then they bite into one, and shazam! They are blown away! <\/p>\n

I wasn’t expecting to like these as much as I do, either. The recipe is from Marion Cunningham’s The Breakfast Book, which I love to death and have had for a million years. It wasn’t until the other day, though, that I tried the Ginger Shortbread recipe. I try not to think how much better my life would have been if I had discovered this recipe sooner.<\/p>\n

They are super easy to make, and there are no real “specialty” ingredients, so, yes, you can just whip these up whenever you feel like it. Danger!<\/p>\n

GINGER SHORTBREAD from The Breakfast Book by Marion Cunningham
\nYields 2 dozen wedges<\/p>\n

Ingredients:
\n2 cups all-purpose flour
\n1 cup dark brown sugar
\n2 tablespoons ground ginger
\n1 teaspoon baking soda
\n2 sticks butter, softened (I used unsalted, and I didn’t really soften it)<\/p>\n

Preheat the oven to 325F.
\nDig up two 8″ round cake pans.<\/p>\n

Mix together all the dry ingredients (i.e., everything but the butter) in a large bowl. Cut the butter into small chunks and drop them into the dry mix. Use a pastry blender or your fingers and mix the butter in like you’re making a pie dough. You want to blend it in so there are no large chunks of butter. Here’s a tip: I wear surgical gloves to blend the butter. Does that sound crazy or creepy? Who cares, because it works great!<\/p>\n

Divide the dough between the two cake pans and press into the pans (again, surgical gloves!). Prick the dough all over with a fork at 1\/2″ intervals.<\/p>\n

Bake 40-45 minutes or until lightly browned around the edges. Remove pans from the oven, let cool for a few minutes, then cut each pan into 12 wedges. Carefully lift from pans and cool the shortbread on racks. Yum yum in your tum tum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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