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    Crackled ginger oat cookies

    Light brown muscovado sugar is the secret ingredient here, giving the cookies irresistibly chewy middles and crisp edges.

    • Preparation time: 10 minutes per batch
    • Total time: 20 minutes 20 minutes

    Makes: about 36 cookies

    Ingredients

    225g unsalted butter, softened
    200g light brown muscovado sugar
    1 large egg yolk
    225g self-raising flour
    1⁄2 tsp fine salt
    1 tbsp ground ginger
    125g jumbo oats
    85g crystallised stem ginger, cut into 0.5cm size pieces
    25g demerara sugar 

    Method

    1. Preheat the oven to 190°C, gas mark 5. Line two baking sheets with baking parchment. Cream the butter and muscovado sugarin a bowl using electric beaters, then beat in the egg yolk.

    2. Sift in the flour, salt and ground ginger. Using a spatula, work together to make a soft dough. Fold in 100g oats and 2/3 the stem ginger.

    3. Mix the remaining oats and stem ginger with the demerara. Shape 1 level tbsp dough into a ball, press into the oat mix, then transfer to the baking sheets, oaty-side up. Repeat; leave room for spreading.

    4. Bake for 10 minutes. Cool on the trays for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight tin. 

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