December 15, 2025
by wordsfromanneli 26 Comments

No Running Away, Gingerbread Man

A gingerbread man, name of Stan

Was smiling as he left the pan,

He said, “I won’t run,

Cuz I know we’d have fun…,

If you’re nice and don’t bite me, we can.”

*Gingersnap Recipe

In a saucepan, heat up:

1 cup butter

1 cup molasses

1/2 cup brown sugar

Bring to a boil, while stirring the mixture. Let it simmer about a minute until it is bubbling vigorously.

Take it off the heat and pour it into a mixing bowl.

Have dry ingredients ready to add to the syrup mixture.

3 and 1/2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon powdered ginger

Mix dry ingredients with syrup mixture and then pour it onto a heavy plate to put into the fridge to cool for a few hours. I make a couple of cuts in the dough to quarter it on the plate so I can more easily get it off the plate in pieces when it is cooled.

Roll out the dough to about 1/8 inch thickness (it will be hard to roll out at first until the dough loosens up and warms a bit – this is where the man of the house comes in handy) and use a cookie cutter to make the round shape of gingersnaps.

Bake at 350 degrees for about 8 minutes (until the edges are just beginning to turn darker brown). Take them out of the oven and set them aside for a couple of minutes before trying to put them on a cooling rack. They will get “snappy” as they cool.

Use the leftover pieces of dough to make your gingerbread man.

December 27, 2024
by wordsfromanneli 32 Comments

Your Reward

Thank you, friends, for checking in for the last 26 days while we did the alphabet countdown.

It’s time for your reward. Please help yourself to as many gingersnaps as you want.

If you feel like making your own, I will share the recipe at the end of the post.

Gingersnaps

Put in pot and let come to boil:

1 c. butter

1 c. molasses

½ c. brown sugar

Remove from heat. Put in bowl.

Add:

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. ground ginger

3 – 3 ½ c. flour

*

Cool in fridge.

Roll and slice or cut with cookie cutter.

Bake at 350* for 8 minutes.

Good frozen.

*Candied ginger pieces can be added to dough. Also grated fresh ginger may be added.

December 25, 2024
by wordsfromanneli 30 Comments

Y is for Yule

Yule is a celebration of the winter solstice as well as the Christian holiday we usually call Christmas.

Often you may hear about yule logs being placed on the fire in the fireplace. Basically that’s just a big piece of firewood, usually oak, burned around Christmas time. In days of old, people saved a piece of the previous year’s yule log to start the new fire.

My favourite yule logs are the kind I can eat. They have dates and coconut in them.

If you’d like to get the recipe for them, please check my post from a few years ago.

Yule Love Yule Logs

Y is for yule.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

December 8, 2019
by wordsfromanneli 35 Comments

Yule Love Yule Logs

This is a very Christmassy recipe, but it’s good any time of the year.

Simple to make: all the ingredients are in the picture below. No baking powder or baking soda or salt. Just butter, sugar, flour and an egg, vanilla, dates and nuts (you can do without the nuts if you have an allergy). Recipe is at the end of this post.

You can see that I’ve chopped the dates (except for one to show you) and the pecans (you can use walnuts if you prefer them).

Mix the butter and sugar, add an egg and mix again, add the vanilla and then the flour. You’ll get a gooey batter. Add the nuts and dates.

Drop by spoonfuls, a couple at a time, into a bowl with shredded coconut, and to avoid getting batter all over your fingers, take a big pinch of coconut and push the batter off the spoon with it. Then coat the batter over and over in the coconut, pressing lots of coconut into the batter as you shape it into a roll (a yule log).