A TALE OF DIRT PIES & SPICY COOKIES!
These are healthy, healthy cookies & good for a change from butter! More of a dunk in the coffee sorta cookie! The kids liked them, & the boy had a picture idea…to hold it against the sky; eventually we settled for somewhere in between! 
The recipe as adapted from Sunita’s World …
Ingredients:
Wholewheat flour – 1 cup
Cinnamon powder – 1 tsp
Ginger powder – 3/4 tsp
Baking soda – 1/4 tsp
A pinch of salt
Brown sugar – 4 tbsp
Oil – 3 tbsp
Egg – 1
Vanilla essence – 1/2 tsp
Vanilla Sugar to roll the balls of cookie dough in (can use granulated sugar too)
Method:
- Whisk together the egg, oil, sugar, and vanilla.
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In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, soda,salt, cinnamon and ginger.
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Make a well in the centre of the flour mixture and tip in the egg mixture.
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Gently fold in, with a spatula until everything just comes together…do not over mix.
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Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and chill for an hour.
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Pre heat the oven at 180 deg C, grease a baking tray.
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Divide the mixture into 15 equal portions and shape each into a ball.
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Roll each ball in the sugar and place them on the prepared baking tray, a little apart from each other.
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Gently flatten the balls for 12-15 minutes or till the tops are firm and feel dry…(there will be visible cracks on the top).
Cool in the tray for a few minutes and then transfer to a rack to cool completely before storing in air tight containers.
In the daughter’s words…Oooooooooooooooh crackle-tops!
Deeba @ PAB
About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.
20 Comments
Kalai
Would be totally awesome with a mug of coffee!! And definitely better than using gobs of butter. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Rosie
Oooooooooooooooh is just what I would say too!! I wish I could just put my hand into my screen and bring out one of your delicious cookies mmmmmm…
Rosie x
Dhivya
wow!awesome cookies..love those
sunita
Deeba, I’m so glad that your kiddos enjoyed the cookies with crackled tops :-)…mine adore them too.
Andrew
Those cookies look great. I haven’t made any in a while and now I really want to!
The New Cook
Passionate baker...& beyond
Hi Kalai…these were a breeze to make, & looked so pretty!
I’ll let the daughter know Rosie. She’ll be thrilled!:0)
Thanks Divya
Sunita, thanks, these were very nice & really simple.
Hey Andrew, thanks for stopping by.Nothing better than home-made cookies!!
Passionate baker...& beyond
Hi Kalai…these were a breeze to make, & looked so pretty!
I’ll let the daughter know Rosie. She’ll be thrilled!:0)
Thanks Divya
Sunita, thanks, these were very nice & really simple.
Hey Andrew, thanks for stopping by.Nothing better than home-made cookies!!
Rachel
I’ve been eyeing those cookies since the time I saw it over at sunita’s….
Purnima
All pics r pretty, esp the son-daughter collage wt wormy bowl! 😀 Shall try cookies soon-tks to Sunita n u!(crumbling these atop jell-o fab idea!)
arundati
after i spoke with you…i made a batch of these tooo…just took a pic after seeing your post…only 3 cookies made it to the pic!!
Passionate baker...& beyond
Eye catching, aren’t they Rachel?
Thanks Purnima…jello was a big hit & the making of it even bigger!
3’s better than none Arundati.The pictures are no reflection of the pandemonium in the house that day!
Passionate baker...& beyond
Eye catching, aren’t they Rachel?
Thanks Purnima…jello was a big hit & the making of it even bigger!
3’s better than none Arundati.The pictures are no reflection of the pandemonium in the house that day!
Coffee & Vanilla
Your dirt pies look delicious 🙂
Margot
Coffee & Vanilla
Your dirt pies look delicious 🙂
Margot
Vanamala
fantastic cookies …..
Arfi Binsted
ahahahaha!! kids just love kitchen. i don’t bother my kids make a mess, they usually are helping me when i am tidying up. lovely cookies!
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familiabencomo
You are such a great mom! I love it that you “allowed” some baking in the kitchen. Much better than me!
I’m green with envy over everything you create!
xoxox Amy
Passionate baker...& beyond
Hey there Margot..loved the marbled eggs!
Thanks for stopping by Vanamala.:0)
You are a patient mother Arfi.Patient enough to tutor them at home & give them a free run of the kitchen. I’m not so good!!
Amy…you have to see my level of patience…’allowed’ was putting it mildly!Am quite the devil…can’t be better than you!! Ha ha!!
Passionate baker...& beyond
Hey there Margot..loved the marbled eggs!
Thanks for stopping by Vanamala.:0)
You are a patient mother Arfi.Patient enough to tutor them at home & give them a free run of the kitchen. I’m not so good!!
Amy…you have to see my level of patience…’allowed’ was putting it mildly!Am quite the devil…can’t be better than you!! Ha ha!!
Debby
Thank you so much for stopping by my blog and for the nice comments. Looking at your blog, I realize how much I have to learn. I hope to try these cookies, the other things are perhaps out of my league. But so beautiful – I would love to try them – to eat.