Gingerbread and Sultana Biscuits

[KarenH]

Gingerbread and Sultana Biscuits.

From the Alyce Alexandra website - free recipes online if you join as a member.

Really yummy biscuits.  I found the dough very soft and sticky and difficult to deal with, even with adding extra spelt flour.  I couldn't roll the dough into balls, rather just dropped rough spoonfuls of the mixture onto the pan.  Grinding the whole cloves and cinnamon stick from scratch (rather than using the powdered variety of spice)  added a really lovely flavour, and was definitely worth the effort.  Would make again, but would add extra flour to make the dough a bit thicker and easier to handle.  4/5

[Slice of Health]

Yum they look nice Karen. Are they chewy or crunchy?  I got this recipe too and will try with ordinary flour, or perhaps wholemeal.

[KarenH]

The ones I made were quite soft Kulsha.  I only cooked them for about 8 minutes as Alyce recommended, and at first they were very very soft and I was worried I hadnt cooked them enough, but they firmed up on the tray nicely.  Definitely worth a try!  I will be interested to see how you go with different flour.  Let us know!

[Slice of Health]

I might try this today!

[CreamPuff63]

I've made two batches so far. They're a nice biccy and not crunchy, but very flavoursome

[judydawn]

Could you cook them longer to make them crunchy?

[Slice of Health]

Mmm yum! Mine came out looking rougher looking but they taste great and I like the soft texture. I didn't have spelt flour, but for added goodness, i added 2 tbsn / 20g linseeds ground up with the spices at the first step plus 3 tbsn oat bran added with plain white flour. Judy I don't think leaving them in the oven for longer would work because the bottoms of these biscuits were dark brown after 7 min, I think they would burn... Maybe at a lower temperature though?

[judydawn]

Thanks Kulsha, they are obviously meant to be a soft biscuit.