Soft Baked Gingersnaps

Hello there!

Why don't you sit down and enjoy a cookie.
A delicious cookie.
A scrumdiddlyumptious cookie.
A gingery, chewy, soft, warm and cinnamon-kissed cookie.

How can you say no?

You can't. :) So here's the recipe:

Soft-baked Gingersnaps
adapted from: http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013/09/chewy-brown-sugar-cookies-recipe.html

4 tablespoons butter (melted)
4 tablespoons oil
6 tablespoons yogurt
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
2 tablespoons maple syrup
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 large egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups (10 ounces) all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons ginger powder
1 tablespoon grated ginger (don't shy away from the ginger, unless you don't like powerful flavors.)

Mix butter, oil and yogurt with sugar and maple syrup. Add egg, vanilla and grated ginger. Then stir in flour, baking soda and powder, and ginger powder. Mix into a smooth dough then refrigerate for 30 min. Make round balls and coat in extra sugar. Press onto baking sheet and bake at 350 for 10-13 minutes. *Warning* These SPREAD a lot during baking. Make sure to give them space. Let cool before eating.
Enjoy!

Spiced apple juice

Hey guys,

So, winter break ended and so they slammed us with homework because we had a extra snow day :) So, that's why I haven't posted a lot. Well, anyhow, on the snow day I came inside and really needed a warm drink to get rid of those chills. I'm totally a cinnamon and spice girl so I decided to make spiced apple juice. It's warm, comforting and scrumptious and it definitely gets rid of the chills! Here's a pic:

Looks good, right? This is the first post I've ever done where the pics have actually turned out good. I'm nowhere being a professional photographer ;) Here's another pic just so you can enjoy the temptation of it:

See the snow in the background? Yup! We finally got snow at the right time of the year! Yay!! As I'm blogging right now it's probably about 3 degrees outside. Brr! So let me show you how to make this drink to warm your spirit!

Spiced apple juice:

3/4 cup apple juice 

4 pinches cinnamon

1 teeny tiny pinch cloves

2 pinches nutmeg

2 pinches powdered ginger

1 cinnamon stick to garnish and stir

Mix everything except the cinnamon stick together and microwave for 1 min. Stir after heating with cinnamon stick to blend spices. Enjoy!

Thanks for reading and happy new year!

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