Recipe Corner: Award Winning Gingersnaps

These are great for snacking, for lunchboxes, for gift giving, for parties, an overall great cookie! I can say award winning... well maybe a more accurate description would be a contest winning recipe. I gave this recipe to a friend of mine and her daughters used it in a kids cookie contest in their area and each of them got first place in their age division for these cookies! So enjoy!

AWARD WINNING GINGERSNAPS

3/4 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup molasses
1 beaten egg
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
sugar to coat dough

Preheat oven to 375. Cream together shortening and 1 cup of sugar until fluffy. Add molasses and egg and mix well. Combine flour, baking soda, and spices. Stir into creamed mixture. Mix well. Mold in to 1 inch balls (I use a cookie scoop and it works wonderfully here). Roll each in sugar to coat. Plase about 2 inches apart on a greased cookie sheet (though I just made these and did not grease and they were fine). Bake about 6-7 minutes . Cool on pan for a few minutes to allow cookie to "set" up. Completely cool on wire racks. Makes approximately 3 dozen cookies.

Recipe Corner: Fluffy Biscuits

From my other blog, Real Life Stuff...

Recipe Corner: Fluffy Biscuits

I found this recipe somewhere on the internet a while ago and it has become my family's favorite biscuit recipe, especially when served with sausage gravy! Give it a try and I am sure your family will love it too!

Fluffy Biscuits
makes about 8- 10 biscuits

• 2 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar (can be increased if you want sweeter)
• 1 1/2 cups heavy cream (cannot substitute and maintain the same results)

1. Preheat oven to 480 (not a typo, really hot oven! yes really, 480!)
2. Spray cookie sheet with cooking spray
3. In a medium bowl combine all the dry ingredients.
4. Add cream (no substitutions... they won't get as fluffy, trust me, I've tried!)
5. Stir together just until it sticks together and forms a ball.
6. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and gently press dough out to about 3/4" thickness.
7. Cut out biscuits using about a 3" biscuit cutter, or a glass will do!
8. Place biscuits on the greased cookie sheet leaving about an inch in between.
9. Bake in your preheated, very hot oven, for approximately 10 minutes, until golden brown on the top and the bottom. They will rise pretty tall while baking and will sink a bit after you take them out.

I recommend serving hot with sausage gravy to drown them in! YUMMY!