The Most Gingery-est Cookies Ever

If you're a kid making this recipe, ask your mum or dad or whoever looks after you to help you with taking pictures and the oven, if you want to do the same thing we've done.

I'm seven years old and in grade two. I've been practising baking ever since I saw my Grandma cook. I tried cooking and it didn't work out perfectly, but ever since then I've known how to cook.

If you think I got this recipe from a book or online, you are incorrect! I liked being creative so I made up my own recipe!

These cookies are really delicious and I loved eating them. If I had any more left, I would definitely eat all of them! I have to say, you should try them after you got them out of the oven, because they're literally so moist. And after a few days, they become a little bit dry, but you can put them in the microwave just for one minute, and then you have a really delicious cookie to eat.

**Note from the baker's Mum: I've helped the baker post her recipe here, and give my permission for her to enter the cookie contest. While she cooked, I wrote down her dictated words, and took action photos when she instructed me to. The rest is her invention.

Ingredients

**Note from the baker's Mum: I've listed these ingredients for her, based on the quantities she used as she was inventing the recipe. She decided on the category groupings below, and photographed them.

Dry ingredients

1. Flour (3 cups)
2. Baking soda (1 teaspoon)
3. Baking powder (1 teaspoon)

Wet ingredients

1. Eggs (2)
2. Vanilla (1 teaspoon)
3. Salt (a little)

Melted ingredients

1. Butter (1/2 block, or 125 g)
2. White sugar (1 cup)
3. Brown sugar (1/2 cup, and a bit more) (not pictured)
4. Ginger (1 teaspoon)
5. Cinnamon (1 teaspoon)
6. Chocolate chips (1 small packet, 100g) (not pictured)

Drizzle ingredients

1. Treacle (1/3 cup)
2. Brown sugar (6 Tablespoons)
3. Chocolate chips (1/2 small packet, 45g)
4. Ginger (1 teaspoon)
5. Cinnamon (1 teaspoon)
6. Water (a splash) (optional, not pictured)
7. Butter (1 Tablespoon) (optional, not pictured)

1. Chop the butter into pieces. (Move the other half of the block to the side, we won't be using it).
2. Put it into the pan.
3. Add the sugar.
4. Squish the sugar and butter together with your hands.

1. Add the spices.

1. Add the chocolate chips.
2. Stir on the stove. It should be getting droopy like a syrup. It looks like a truffle but bumpy inside.
3. Let it cool.
4. (If you have two people baking, you can see if someone wants to keep on stirring it while it's cooling down.)

1. In the big bowl, add 3 cups of flour.
2. Add 1 teaspoon of baking powder and 1 teaspoon of baking soda.

1. We're plopping big bits of our chocolate mix into our dry bowl. And if it's turned to a little bit of a syrup, you can pour it in.

1. I cracked my eggs into the wet ingredients bowl. But make sure you don't get any eggshells in, because if you do, that would be yucky. If you do, take it out with a fork or your hand. But if you use your hand, make sure to wash your hands.
2. Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
3. Add a just little bit of salt.
4. Mix the wet ingredients all in the bowl.

1. Then, I pour them all into the big bowl, where the dry ingredients are.
2. Mix it all together. Otherwise, you won't have a cookie!

1. Shape the dough into a round ball like ... a cookie!
2. Then I'm using a cookie cutter to make circles.
3. Next, I'm printing patterns into the sweet dough.

1. There's just one more thing that we need to do if you're a kid making this recipe. Grab a grown-up and get them to put it in the oven.

**Note from the baker's Mum: we baked these about 10-12 minutes at 175C/350F (fan oven), until they were golden but still quite soft.

1. In a pot, add the treacle and spices together.
2. Now you want to mix them together. If it's a little bit hard to mix together, grab some water.
3. Put a few chocolate chips in.
4. Add your brown sugar in.
5. Get your icing onto the stovetop and start mixing. It could take about 10-15 minutes to melt. If it doesn't seem perfect, you can add some butter in. (I added 1 Tablespoon).

1. Next, drizzle it on the cookies.
2. Eat it!