Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, hermit cookies. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lightly butter or line two baking sheets with parchment paper. In the bowl of your electric mixer, or with a hand mixer. These old-fashioned hermit cookies are made with brown sugar and your choice of chopped dates or raisins along with chopped pecans or walnuts.
Hermit Cookies is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Hermit Cookies is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook hermit cookies using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Hermit Cookies:
- Get 1/2 cup softened butter or solid coconut oil
- Make ready 1/2 cup black strap molasses
- Take 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
- Take 2 eggs
- Get 1 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1 tsp cinnamon
- Take 1/2 tsp each nutmeg, ginger, ground cloves
- Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
- Get 1 tsp vanilla
- Make ready 2 cups flour
- Get 1 cup chopped walnuts
- Prepare 1/2 cup raisins
For the cookies: Whisk together the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, allspice and ginger in a medium bowl and set aside. Transfer the glaze to a piping bag and pipe stripes onto the cooled hermits. This Hermit Cookie recipe, however, is a New England specialty. I have no idea where the name Anyway, Hermit Cookies are fragrant with spices.
Instructions to make Hermit Cookies:
- Preheat oven 350°
- Cream butter, molasses, sugar
- Add eggs, blend
- In separate bowl, blend spices, powder, salt and flour
- Add 1/2 flour to sugar mixture, blend
- Add remaining flour, nuts and raisins. Blend thoroughly
- Line baking sheets with parchment. Using #20 scoop, scoop out cookies– they won't spread much.
- Bake 10 minutes, rotate and bake 5-7 minutes more
- Cool on wire rack
I found them a bit overwhelming, so I toned mine. A nice tropical variation of the traditional hermit cookie. We all loved these eggless hermit cookies. I baked it for a gathering and it was a huge hit. Hermit Cookies: Hermit cookies are pretty new to me, but apparently they're big in New England.
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