Enjoy these walnut topped candied ginger and cardamom spiced drop cookies that are drizzled with melted chocolate chips – an anytime dessert recipe that’s ready in just an hour!
Walnut-Topped Ginger Drops
- Prep Time 60 min
- Total 60 min
- Servings 42
- Ingredients 12
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup half-and-half
- 3 tablespoons finely chopped candied ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 42 walnut halves
- 3 tablespoons white vanilla baking chips
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 375°F. In large bowl, beat brown sugar and butter with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla and egg until well blended. On low speed, beat in remaining ingredients except walnuts and baking chips until well blended.
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Step2On ungreased cookie sheets, drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart. Press 1 walnut half onto each cookie.
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Step3Bake 6 to 9 minutes or until edges are set and light golden brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 5 minutes.
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Step4Meanwhile, place baking chips in small resealable freezer plastic bag; seal bag. Microwave on High 30 to 45 seconds or until softened. Squeeze bag until mixture is smooth. (If necessary, microwave 30 seconds longer or just until all chips are melted.) Cut small tip from one bottom corner of bag. Squeeze bag to drizzle melted chips over cookies.
Nutrition
80
Calories
4g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
8g
Total Carbohydrate
3g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 80
- Calories from Fat
- 35
- Total Fat
- 4g
- 6%
- Saturated Fat
- 2g
- 9%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 10mg
- 4%
- Sodium
- 65mg
- 3%
- Potassium
- 30mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 8g
- 3%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 3g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 2%
- 2%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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