Regular gingerbread and a chocolate gingerbread all wrapped up into one cookie slice. This is a "chillin" cookie, but only in 30 minute intervals (enough time to do clean-up or play a computer game or take a nap...).
Ingredients: Golden gingerbread: 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, 1/4 teaspoon baking soda, pinch of salt, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 5 tablespoons butter, cut into pieces, 1/2 cup granulated sugar, 2 tablespoons maple syrup, 1 egg yolk, beaten. Chocolate gingerbread: 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, pinch of salt, 2 teaspoons apple pie spice, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, 1/4 cup cocoa powder, 1/3 cup butter, cut into pieces, 1/3 cup light brown sugar, packed, 1 egg, beaten.
Instructions: Make the Golden gingerbread: Sift the flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon into a large mixing bowl. Rub the butter into the flour mixture with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the sugar, syrup, and egg yolk and mix to a firm dough. Knead lightly. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Make the Chocolate gingerbread: Sift together the flour, salt, spice, baking soda, and cocoa powder in large mixing bowl. Rub the butter into the flour mixture until resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the sugar and egg and mix to a firm dough. Knead lightly. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out half of the chocolate dough to an 11x1 1/2 inch rectangle. Repeat with half of the golden gingerbread. Using a sharp knife, cut both lengths into seven long, thin strips. Lay the strips together, side by side, alternating the chocolate and golden dough.
Roll out the remaining golden gingerbread dough with your hands to a long sausage, 3/4 inches wide and the length of the strips. Lay the sausage of dough down the center of the striped dough.
Carefully bring the striped dough up around the sausage and press it gently in position, to enclose the sausage completely.
Roll the remaining chocolate dough to an 11x5 inch rectangle. Bring the chocolate dough up around the striped dough, to enclose it. Press gently into place. Wrap and chill for 30 minutes.
Prheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment paper. Cut chilled gingerbread roll into thin slices and place on prepared baking sheets slightly apart. Bake for 12-14 minutes or until slightly brown around the edges. Cool on baking sheet for a minute or two before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
Makes about 3 dozen cookies.
"The Cookie and Biscuit Bible", Hermes House, Anness Publishing Ltd., London, 2010.
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