Girl Friday’s Cookies

Today I made some cookies using a recipe given to me by Girl Friday, a Canadian friend, which set me thinking about the power of the internet. 18 months ago, I didn’t know Girl Friday existed and then, because there is actually a “Secret Sequinned Sarah” hiding in me, I “met” her (and many other wonderful people) across the internet through following Brian Fortuna and Kristina Rihanoff on Strictly Come Dancing. This electronic connection has actually been a life changing experience as Andy and I have taken up dancing, I’ve learnt how to use Facebook and cook Canadian. That’s Awesome

Girl Friday's cookies

1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla
1 egg
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 1/2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats (not quick-cooking)
1 1/2 cups chopped dried apricots
4 slices of candied ginger, finely chopped

Preheat oven to 350 F, make sure one rack is in the middle position. Grease two baking sheets. Chop apricots and ginger and combine together in a separate bowl. Set aside.

Beat together brown & white sugar and butter with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until fluffy. Add vanilla and egg and beat until combined well.

In a separate bowl, mix together with a fork flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Add to the wet dough in thirds, mixing well on low speed. Fold in rolled oats until combined. Fold in chopped apricots and candied ginger until evenly combined. I like to make sure to get a good bit of apricot and ginger in each cookie.

Spoon rounded teaspoons of dough, evenly spaced, on one of your baking sheets. Place in oven and bake for 15 minutes, or until golden brown. While the first sheet is baking, start spooning out the dough on your second cookie sheet. When the first batch is done, transfer them to cooling racks with a spatula. Pop in the second sheet and keep the cookie assembly line going! :)

Girl Friday and I both made about 3 dozen cookies with this recipe. They are sweet, chewy, spicy, and very yummy!