Ginger Sandwich Cookies Recipe with White Chocolate

Stem ginger cookie sandwiches

Name: Stem ginger cookie sandwiches
Total time: 3 h
Yield: Makes about 20
Ingredients: 300g plain flour; ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda; a pinch sea salt; 200g unsalted butter softened; 100g soft light brown sugar softened; 150g caster sugar; 85g crystalised stem ginger roughly chopped; 150g (minimum 30% cocoa butter content) white chocolate chopped; a pinch sea salt; 125ml double cream

Edd Kimber

Published: February 17, 2018 at 11:34 AM

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Makes about 20

A little effort

Total time: 3 hrs

+ cooling + chilling

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Check out these soft, chewy ginger cookies with caramelised white chocolate ganache. These cookies make a great sweet treat to go with your afternoon tea.

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These stem ginger cookie sandwiches with caramelised white chocolate ganache have been created by original GBBO winner and expert baker Edd Kimber.

Here’s Edd’s insider baking knowledge for this recipe: Many people find white chocolate too sweet but cooking it slowly in the oven gives it lots of caramel flavour and makes it taste less saccharine. My favourite way to use it is pairing it with ginger, especially in ice cream or cookies.

Ingredients

Nutrition

300g plain flour
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
a pinch sea salt
200g unsalted butter

softened
100g soft light brown sugar

softened
150g caster sugar
85g crystalised stem ginger

roughly chopped

WHITE CHOCOLATE GANACHE

150g (minimum 30% cocoa butter content) white chocolate

chopped
a pinch sea salt
125ml double cream

Nutrition: per serving

kcal264
fat14.1g
saturates8.7g
carbs31.7g
sugars20.1g
fibre0.7g
protein2.3g
salt0.2g

Method

step 1

Put the flour, bicarbonate of soda and sea salt into a large bowl and stir to combine. In another large bowl, beat the butter and sugars using electric beaters until smooth and creamy. Add in the flour mixture and the stem ginger and, on a slow speed, mix until just combined and forming clumps. Tip the mixture out onto the worksurface and use your hands to bring together into a uniform dough. Halve the dough equally and form each into logs about 5cm in diameter. Wrap in clingfilm and chill for at least 4 hours until firm.
step 2

To make the caramelised white chocolate, heat the oven to 120C/fan 100C/gas ½. Break the chocolate into chunks and put onto a rimmed non-stick baking tray and bake for 1-11/2 hours or until a rich caramel colour. While baking, the chocolate needs to be stirred every 10-15 minutes to prevent it catching on the baking tray and burning. Make sure you give the chocolate a really good stir and scrape it off the bottom of the tray. The chocolate will go a little grainy during baking but will become smooth and creamy when stirred. Sprinkle with sea salt and pour onto a new baking-paper-lined tray and leave to set.
step 3

Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4 and line 2 baking trays with baking paper or silicone baking mats. Use a sharp knife to cut the cookies into 1/2cm-thick discs. Put the cookies onto the baking trays, leaving a 2cm gap between each as they will spread a little as they bake. Bake for 11-12 minutes or until lightly browned around the edges. Allow the cookies to cool on the trays for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool.
step 4

For the ganache, cut the hardened caramelised chocolate into small pieces and put into a small bowl. Put the cream into a small saucepan and bring gently to a simmer. Pour the cream over the chocolate and allow to sit for a few minutes before stirring to form a silky smooth ganache. Chill until thickened to a pipeable consistency. Spoon or pipe a small amount of the ganache on the bottom of half of the cookies and sandwich with a second. Put aside until the ganache has fully set. These will keep in an airtight container for 3 days.

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Three photos of Edd Kimber, his One Tin Bakes book and a brownie in a tin

Edd KimberBaking columnist

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