by Sarah Graves
½ teaspoon vanilla
⅓ cup crystallized ginger, very finely chopped
½ cup semisweet chocolate chips
Mix together the flour, baking powder, and ground ginger. In another, larger bowl, mix together the butter and sugar until creamy, mix in the crystallized ginger, and beat in the egg and the vanilla. Then mix the dry ingredients into the moist ones and stir until well blended. Last, mix in the chocolate chips.
Now take a large serving spoon and scoop all the batter up into it. Drop the batter from the spoon into your other hand and use both hands to form a 12-inch-long log. Place the log onto the cookie sheet.
Bake the log at 325 degrees for 25 minutes, remove from oven, cool for ten minutes, and then slice the log with a sharp knife into 12 slices, leaving the slices standing up, separate from one another on the cookie sheet. Return them to the oven for 5 minutes to dry them out a bit (or if you like them very crunchy, for up to 10 minutes).
This recipe makes a dozen.
