I also have a wee little crush on Joy the Baker. So when she posted a recipe recently for ginger walnut chocolate blondies, I started drooling all over the keyboard and simultaneously kneeling down of my computer with arms raised chanting, “All hail Joy! All hail Joy!” Or something like that. And then I promptly scuttled off to the kitchen to figure out how to candy ginger and then pump it into cookies – bite-sized pillowy little clouds of butter-infused goodness. Come to mama. It turns out candying ginger isn’t that difficult. DON’T LISTEN TO WHAT ANYONE ELSE SAYS. All you need is some fresh ginger, sugar, water and patience.Chop, boil, simmer, dry, and coat in sugar – it’s as simple as that.Then throw the little gems into cookie batter and wait anxiously as they cook to perfection in the oven.See that bite right there? Down there? It took all the self control in my cookie-loving body not to inhale that entire thing along with the other half dozen on the rack. I mean, candied ginger and sea salt chocolate chip cookies? COME ON. If you’re a fan of ginger, you must make these cookies.If you’re not a fan of ginger, you must make these cookies.Trust me, you might just fall in love. My unassuming coworkers wolfed down the entire bag I set out in the break room with nothing more than a suspicious hot pink sticky note vaguely indicating what they were. Project mystery cookie drop, SUCCESS. Note: Recipe updated 10/29/2019 for improved texture.

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