We are crazy about Root Baking Co. bread and we know we could never reproduce that at home. But their cookies? Maybe there’s hope for us homebound bakers in reproducing their excellent ginger molasses cookies? We loved the ones that came with a Pizza Jean’s takeout order. Thanks for trying to get the recipe. — Elijah Byrd, Decatur
When Root Baking Co. co-owner Chris Wilkins first sampled this ginger molasses cookie, he says he was less than enthused. "'Where’s the drama? The ludicrous colors? It’s so…plain!' I thought to myself. It just looked like the simplest cookie I had ever seen. So simple, that I was nearly certain that no one would pay us money for it.
“The Ginger Molasses is quiet, unassuming, and endlessly intriguing. It’s so spicy that it’s almost savory, so rich with molasses and brown sugar that it feels like it could only exist during the holiday season, and yet I crave this cookie in the middle of summer."
Wilkins supplied the recipe with both volume and weight measurements. He highly recommends you convert your baking to weigh measurements if possible. And if you want to make the cookie dough ahead, prepare it up to the point where it’s chilled, then slice the cookies and freeze the slices on a cookie sheet. Once frozen, package them for freezer storage. Simply pull from the freezer, arrange on a baking sheet and bake immediately.
From the menu of ... Root Baking Co., Ponce City Market, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta. 470-639-8046, rootbaking.com.
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