Eggless Ginger Biscuits

I used to love these biscuits when I was a child and I could literally finish an entire packet at a time. My love for this biscuit still stays and I was extremely happy with this recipe as the store bought ones! This recipe needs molasses which is a viscous product resulting from refining sugarcane or sugar beets into sugar.

You can replace molasses with any of the following but molasses will give that authentic taste:

• 1 cup dark corn syrup, honey or maple syrup

• 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar

• 3/4 cup granulated sugar, plus 1/4 cup water

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup Maida

• 1/2 tsp Baking powder

• 1/4 tsp Baking soda

• 1 tbsp Dry ginger powder

• 1/2 tbsp Grated ginger

• 1 tbsp Flax seeds powder

• 1/4 cup Butter

• 1/4 cup Molasses

• 1/3 cup brown sugar

• Castor sugar, for dusting

Instructions

1. Mix the flours, soda, baking powder, dry and wet ginger powder, flax seeds powder and mix well

2. In a bowl, take the molasses, butter, brown sugar and beat well till it becomes fluffy

3. Add half the flour and mix well

4. Add rest of the flour and make a firm smooth dough

5. Make balls, flatten a bit and dab it on both sides with castor sugar

6. Bake at 200 degrees C for 5-7 minutes and then at 150 degrees C for another 5 minutes