

The cookies will be crackled on the top and soft inside. Press both sides of each cookie in granulated sugar and place them on the sheet pans. With your hands, roll each cookie into a 1 3/4-inch ball and then flatten them lightly with your fingers. Most of the time, if you see the words Ina Garten and hack in the same sentence, it’s because she’s given us some brilliant kitchen tip for easily slicing corn kernels off the cob, mixing. Scoop the dough with 2 spoons or a small ice cream scoop. Add the crystallized ginger and mix until combined. With the mixer still on low, slowly add the dry ingredients to the bowl and mix on medium speed for 2 minutes. Scrape the bowl with a rubber spatula and beat for 1 more minute. Turn the mixer to low speed, add the egg, and beat for 1 minute. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the brown sugar, oil, and molasses on medium speed for 5 minutes. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, ginger, and salt and then combine the mixture with your hands. We’re crying.Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. She recommends placing the cookies in paper muffin liners, then packing them in paper takeout-style boxes with crinkled parchment paper to keep things from shifting around.Īnd if Jeffrey were going to choose a cookie, Garten says he would choose chocolate hearts, “because his heart is so good.” OMG, Ina. And what about mailing cookie boxes? Well, Garten has plenty of experience from sending her boo Jeffrey treats in college. She also says you can make the dough ahead of time, roll it out, cut shapes, freeze them and then bake as many as you need whenever you want. We adapted Ina Gartens ginger cookies recipe and its a ginger molasses cookie lovers dream come true Lots of candied ginger. That includes sprinkle-coated stars, iced wreaths, chocolate-dipped hearts, pecan cookies and Linzer cookies-yum. Here’s how she does it: She makes a batch (or two) of her simple shortbread dough-which requires five ingredients (flour, sugar, butter, vanilla extract and salt)-then decorates them in various festive ways.


“What I do is take shortbread dough and make lots of different cookies out of it.” In a separate Instagram post, Garten said, “Made Christmas cookies on the this morning! One recipe of shortbread became five different cookies! How easy is that?” It’s so easy, Ina. “For Christmas, everyone wants to make lots of different cookies, but I don’t want to make a lot of different doughs,” she explains. As part of the show’s “All-Star Cookie Bracket,” the Modern Comfort Food author submitted her recipe for Linzer cookies to the competition. Garten made a special appearance on an episode of the Today Showearlier this month to share a few genius tips for holiday cookie baking. Behold, Ina Garten’s five-ingredient cookie recipe, which can be made into five different treats. And while that's never going to happen (we can dream), our queen in chambray did just give us the next best thing. Mix granulated sugar with butter just until combined and then mix in lemon extract. Using a stand mixer with paddle attachment mix together softened butter with zest of 2 lemons making sure to scrape down sides halfway through mixing. All we want for Christmas is to spend the season baking and eating with the Barefoot Contessa. Place butter on countertop for at least 6 hours to bring to room temperature.
