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Yield: Makes about 3 dozen

Ingredients

For the Cookies

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened, plus more for baking sheet

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 teaspoon baking powder

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

1 tablespoon ground ginger

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon coarse salt

1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper

Pinch of ground cloves

1 1/4 cups packed dark-brown sugar

1 large egg, plus 1 large egg yolk

1/4 cup unsulfured molasses

1 cup chopped candied ginger, cut into 1/4-inch pieces

3/4 cup raisins

For the Icing

1/4 cup packed light brown sugar

2 tablespoons whole milk, plus more if needed

2 tablespoons unsalted butter

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1 cup sifted confectioner’s sugar, plus more if needed

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Iced Hermits

Recipe Summary

Yield: Makes about 3 dozen

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Iced Hermits

Recipe Summary

Yield: Makes about 3 dozen

Recipe Summary

Yield: Makes about 3 dozen

Makes about 3 dozen

Ingredients

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened, plus more for baking sheet
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon coarse salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
Pinch of ground cloves
1 1/4 cups packed dark-brown sugar
1 large egg, plus 1 large egg yolk
1/4 cup unsulfured molasses
1 cup chopped candied ginger, cut into 1/4-inch pieces
3/4 cup raisins
1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
2 tablespoons whole milk, plus more if needed
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup sifted confectioner’s sugar, plus more if needed

Directions

Make bars: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 10-by-15-inch rimmed baking sheet. Line bottom with parchment paper, and butter parchment; set aside. Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, ground ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, pepper, and cloves in a medium bowl; set aside.

Put butter in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on medium speed until smooth. Add brown sugars; mix until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Mix in egg and yolk, and molasses. Reduce speed to low; gradually mix in flour mixture. Mix in 1/2 cup candied ginger and the raisins.

Spread dough evenly onto prepared baking sheet. Bake, rotating sheet halfway through, until firm, 18 to 22 minutes. Let cool completely in baking sheet on a wire rack.

Make icing: Put brown sugar, milk, and butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring constantly, until butter has melted and sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat; whisk in vanilla and confectioners sugar. If icing is too thick to drizzle, stir in more milk, a teaspoon at a time. If icing is too thin, stir in more confectioners sugar, a teaspoon at a time. Let cool slightly.

Drizzle bars with icing; sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup candied ginger. Let stand until icing has set, about 15 minutes. Cut into 2-inch squares. Bars can be stored in single layers in airtight containers at room temperature up to 5 days.

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Martha Stewart Member

Rating: Unrated

01/04/2012

                I am in the process of making this for the very first time, with very little baking experience.  I had to candy my own ginger, and found it to be challenging, and just that took longer than it was supposed to.  I'm hoping the overall recipe for these hermits goes well.  I found this recipe via supercook.com recipe database.

Martha Stewart Member

Rating: Unrated

12/18/2010

                This recipe is a gem....Hermits are my fathers favorite cookie and mine also. The pleasure I get from his smile is priceless....by far the best recipe I have made of this cookie. Thank you!

Martha Stewart Member

Rating: Unrated

12/15/2009

                This one of my absolute favorite cookies.  I made it 3 or 4 times last year for Xmas b/c it was so popular and unusual.  Just made a double batch for a cookie exchange.  Candied ginger is cheap in the bulk section of most health food stores.  The confect sugar doesn't need to be sifted for the icing, it melts right in.

Martha Stewart Member

Rating: Unrated

03/06/2009

                Josephine,
                
                click the print button above to get the recipe to open in a new window

Martha Stewart Member

Rating: Unrated

03/05/2009

                HOW CAN THESE BE COMMENTED ON WHEN THE RECIPE HAS NOT BEEN PRINTED UP ON THIS SITE. THEY MUST BE MAGIC TO READ THROUGH THE SCREEN AS THERE'S NO RECIPE HERE ONLY THE COMMENTS, DAH!

Martha Stewart Member

Rating: Unrated

11/14/2008

                PS I'm in England too, Lesley, and I'd never heard of them either. Good, though, aren't they?

Martha Stewart Member

Rating: Unrated

11/14/2008

                These are superb. I missed out the raisins (family not keen), and they still work really well. They're like a cross between English gingerbread and German lebkuchen. Yum!

Martha Stewart Member

Rating: Unrated

11/14/2008

                I am reading this in the uk and have never heard of hermits at all!

Martha Stewart Member

Rating: Unrated

11/13/2008

                I'm from Boston and have never seen round hermits.  I guess it depends on where you're from!  They looked like they were done in flat oblongs and then cut into bars.  They sound yummy.

Martha Stewart Member

Rating: Unrated

11/13/2008

                All of the recipes for hermits that I have are called cookies and
                are never called bars.  Is this another modification by
                the staff?Hermits are chuncky round cookies.

Martha Stewart Member

Rating: Unrated

11/13/2008

                Could  only get Page 1 of comments, but would like to see more!!!

Martha Stewart Member

Rating: Unrated

11/13/2008

                Here in Delta, BC, Canada, I ger my candied ginger at my local health food store.

Martha Stewart Member

Rating: Unrated

11/13/2008

                Williams-Sonoma carries excellent quality Australian candied ginger.

Martha Stewart Member

Rating: Unrated

11/13/2008

                where do you get candied ginger?

Martha Stewart Member

Rating: Unrated

11/13/2008

                it shows 1CUP NOT 1 gallon

Martha Stewart Member

Rating: Unrated

11/13/2008

                I see it as 1 cup sifted, plus more if needed????

Martha Stewart Member

Rating: Unrated

11/04/2008

                Your ingredients list shows 1 GALLON Confectioner's Sugar.  I am sure that is not the correct amount, is it?

Martha Stewart Member

Rating: Unrated

01/04/2012

                I am in the process of making this for the very first time, with very little baking experience.  I had to candy my own ginger, and found it to be challenging, and just that took longer than it was supposed to.  I'm hoping the overall recipe for these hermits goes well.  I found this recipe via supercook.com recipe database.

Rating: Unrated

12/18/2010

                This recipe is a gem....Hermits are my fathers favorite cookie and mine also. The pleasure I get from his smile is priceless....by far the best recipe I have made of this cookie. Thank you!

Rating: Unrated

12/15/2009

                This one of my absolute favorite cookies.  I made it 3 or 4 times last year for Xmas b/c it was so popular and unusual.  Just made a double batch for a cookie exchange.  Candied ginger is cheap in the bulk section of most health food stores.  The confect sugar doesn't need to be sifted for the icing, it melts right in.

Rating: Unrated

03/06/2009

                Josephine,
                
                click the print button above to get the recipe to open in a new window

Rating: Unrated

03/05/2009

                HOW CAN THESE BE COMMENTED ON WHEN THE RECIPE HAS NOT BEEN PRINTED UP ON THIS SITE. THEY MUST BE MAGIC TO READ THROUGH THE SCREEN AS THERE'S NO RECIPE HERE ONLY THE COMMENTS, DAH!

Rating: Unrated

11/14/2008

                PS I'm in England too, Lesley, and I'd never heard of them either. Good, though, aren't they?  


                    
                These are superb. I missed out the raisins (family not keen), and they still work really well. They're like a cross between English gingerbread and German lebkuchen. Yum!  


                    
                I am reading this in the uk and have never heard of hermits at all!

Rating: Unrated

11/13/2008

                I'm from Boston and have never seen round hermits.  I guess it depends on where you're from!  They looked like they were done in flat oblongs and then cut into bars.  They sound yummy.  


                    
                All of the recipes for hermits that I have are called cookies and
                are never called bars.  Is this another modification by
                the staff?Hermits are chuncky round cookies.  


                    
                Could  only get Page 1 of comments, but would like to see more!!!  


                    
                Here in Delta, BC, Canada, I ger my candied ginger at my local health food store.  


                    
                Williams-Sonoma carries excellent quality Australian candied ginger.  


                    
                where do you get candied ginger?  


                    
                it shows 1CUP NOT 1 gallon  


                    
                I see it as 1 cup sifted, plus more if needed????

Rating: Unrated

11/04/2008

                Your ingredients list shows 1 GALLON Confectioner's Sugar.  I am sure that is not the correct amount, is it?

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