e had some company over Friday night for a simple dinner and some game playing, though one of our guests only joined us for the latter. While we were waiting for her to arrive I decided to whip up some gingersnaps that I'd been meaning to make for awhile, but hadn't gotten around to yet. It was an exuberant affair involving explosions of flour and cascades of sticky molasses, but in the end we decimated a couple batches of warm, spicy cookies.

Note that I didn't actually use fresh ginger for this recipe, I was just feeling artsy. The key ingredient (besides the ginger) turned out to be some more of the candied orange peel that's been kicking around my fridge. Chopped up and added to the batter, the sweet orange essence flavor is an interesting contrast to the spices.

If you want the recipe I can't recommend David Lebovitz's Room for Dessert highly enough - it's in my little Amazon store thingy on the right there, though please feel free to buy it from wherever you like if you decide to get it. The candied orange peel instructions are in there as well.