New England Hermit Cookie Bars

One of the best hermit cookie bars you’ll discover! Comparable in style to a gingerbread cookie, these hermit cookies are smooth and chewy and made with ginger, molasses, and raisins.

For people who know me, know that I’m a much bigger fan of savory than candy. So baked items aren’t normally on my agenda, however I needed to share these New England Hermit Cookie Bars that had been truly shared with me by my husband! A Boston Massachusetts native, when he was rising up he would discover these cookies in an area bakery and buy them by the bag for a few {dollars}.

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The way to Make New England Hermit Cookie Bars

Begin your hermit cookie bars by greasing your pan. I like to make use of each crisco and flour to make it possible for nothing sticks.

Then take a big mixing bowl and add within the flour to combine your dry substances.

To the flour, add in your heat spices of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves.

Then add the salt, baking soda, and baking powder.

Whisk all the dry substances collectively, after which set this bowl apart.

Then within the bowl of your stand mixer, add your brown sugar.

Add your softened butter to the brown sugar, and cream them collectively till fluffy and creamy.

Then pour in your molasses whereas mixing on low.

Then add in your eggs, and blend till absolutely included.

Along with your mixer on low, slowly add your dry substances till absolutely combined.

End by folding in your raisins, weither with a wood spoon or your mixer on the bottom setting.

Spreading out hermit bars dough onto pan

Take your dough and unfold it evenly in your ready baking sheet. Toss them within the oven at 350 for roughly 17 minutes.

Let the hermit bars cool, then minimize into squares with both a pizza cutter or a knife.

Picking up a New England hermit cookie bar.

Serve and luxuriate in your New England Hermit Cookie Bars!

Substitutions

Swap the raisins. You may use different dried fruits or nuts instead of the raisins.
Add some chocolate. Loads of individuals will throw in some chocolate chips with their hermit cookie bars.

Regularly Requested Questions:

How do you retailer hermit cookies?

Hermit cookies retailer nicely. As much as per week in an hermetic container at room temperature and they’re going to nonetheless style nice!

Why are hermit cookies known as hermits?

Due to it’s longevity, this cookie was typically despatched with sailors and different vacationers as one thing to eat on longer journeys. So it traveled, as hermits typically did.

What’s the best option to minimize cookie bars?

Use a pizza cutter or knife and minimize them into squares (or any form you favor).

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Liz enjoying new england hermit cookie bars.

Whip up a batch of those smooth and chewy hermit cookie bars in your subsequent cookie swap, classroom get together, hostess present, or vacation open home!

No fork required.