Featured recipe from Marilu's table * Lumberjacks

Cookies are a big part of the Christmas holiday, so why not have some cookies made from good ingredients? If you like molasses cookies, you'll love Lumberjacks.

The dough keeps well in the fridge if you can't get them made and baked on the same day. The recipe works just as well with egg replacer, so you can have vegan cookies. And this recipe yields a lot of cookies!

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Lumberjacks

Yellow * Makes about 7 dozen cookies

1 cup evaporated cane juice crystals, plus 1/2 cup extra for rolling the dough

1 cup Earth Balance margarine

1 cup blackstrap molasses

2 organic cage free eggs or equivalent egg replacer

4 cups unbleached wheat flour or whole-wheat pastry flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon ground ginger

Preheat oven to 350F.

In a large bowl cream together the cane juice crystals and margarine. Add molasses and eggs, blend completely. In another large bowl combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and ginger.

Have at hand a small bowl of cane juice crystals. Pinch off a ball the size of a walnut. Roll it in the crystals and place on a cookie sheet. Repeat with the rest of the dough. Bake 12-15 minutes or until golden.