Recipe inspiration can strike anywhere, and this idea came to me as I was eating a piece of one of my favorite candies, Chimes Ginger Chews. Chimes’ founder, Elvis Sae-Tang, was inspired by the ginger candies from his parents’ Javanese village and wanted to share the health benefits of these delicious treats with the world. Chimes makes several flavors, but peanut butter–ginger is my favorite: I love how the addition of peanut butter softens the candy’s gingery kick ever so slightly. I decided to play around with adding some ginger to my favorite peanut butter cookies and stumbled upon something even more delicious than I’d imagined. A cross between peanut butter cookies and spiced molasses cookies, these are thin, crisp, and chewy, and it is very easy to eat very many of them.
This recipe was excerpted from ‘Cooking In Real Life: Delicious & Doable Recipes for Every Day’ by Lidey Heuck. Buy the full book on Amazon.