Chocolate-Chip Ginger Cookies

People are going to assume I can't cook anything without ginger in it, & well, they might be right. I've yet to find anything that can't be improved by either adding ginger or cola. Anyway, I'm on a seemingly eternal search for the perfect vegan chocolate-chip cookie, & I thought well, Bo's pretty good at what he does, surely his chocolate-chip cookies are slammin! Turns out I thought right!

We added some diced crystallised ginger to the mix where Bo asks for the same amount of chopped walnuts, not having any walnuts I thought ginger would be an interesting bit of an experiment & thankfully it turned out well! The pieces aren't spicy at all & distribute nicely so you just get a little sweet gingeryness every few bites. The cookie itself is soft & chewy, exactly how I like my cookies, & may possibly be my new front-runner for the best vegan chocolate-chip cookie ever...

Gingerbread

I don't foray into the kitchen alone for just any old recipe, but as a general rule something gingery will sway me. It's a little known fact that ginger is a sure-fire ginger girl bait so I can't resist the stuff, & this recipe is easily one of the best ginger-based ginger baits I've had. It's an old-fashioned gingerbread, not a crunchy gingerbread-person biccie, with a texture halfway between a soft fudgey brownie & a carrot cake. The flavour is quite dark, due to the amount of treacle & muscovado sugar, but the lemon icing lightens the whole experience up. This is actually the first thing I've cooked where anyone has said they would pay for it!