Rotten Old Boats, Snappy New Cookies

The mass of huge, hot stones and rubble blocking the way back was also cutting off the wind through the cavern. Soon even the rotten, old boats looked more promising than standing around in the dark. However when the lead boat and most of the under ground river plunged suddenly down a narrow side tunnel, boating lost much of it's appeal.

I intend to get a better laid out more detailed recipe and some process pictures but for now these are too good to wait.


This trio of cookies (ginger upper right) all include  baked pumpkin seeds  and coconut oil and buttermilk.


The pumpkin seeds were baked @ 325 F for 45 min, then weighed up and ground with the cloves in a coffee grinder.

 

The pumpkin seeds and cloves were, combined with the ginger, cinnamon, salt, and baking soda. These were sifted together, stirred with a whisk and set aside. The coconut oil and buttermilk were blended together until smooth then first the sugar then the molasses and egg were blended in. When the dry ingredients were added the resulting batter/dough was fairly stiff.

  I used the teaspoon scoop and with a plastic bag over my other hand to make rounded the balls of dough for a cookie ball of about 2 teaspoons. Brown sugar Turbinado sugar and cinnamon made a good coating to roll them in. Baked @ 375 f for 12 min they slumped and spread. Their tops cracked and they were slightly crisp but not hard like a lot of ginger snaps. This batch made 3 dozen.