Old German Honey Cookies

Very easy to make. Definitely use a sauce pan and not a frypan. I like that it’s simple and has few ingredients. I read the reviews before baking and increased the ginger and vanilla to 1 1/2 teaspoons each. I decreased baking time to 11 minutes and greased my cookie sheet. They came out perfect and taste lovely. Adding this recipe to my book.

Nice soft cookie with good honey flavor.

I just took them out of the oven, my granddaughter loves them, very sweet.

It tastes like a soft cake-like Nilla Wafer! So making this again! Easy to make!

I made these for a cookie swap. My first batch did not come out well but I liked the taste so I tweaked it to make it work. I added 1t cinnamon to Step 2. I put the batter in the fridge for about 2 hours before cooking. Then rolled balls and rolled balls in sugar putting on cookie sheet (using parchment paper) and pushed balls slightly down. I also added powered sugar after cooling

Amazing recipe my family loved it but I had to add it a little more of flour

Thank you for sharing this recipe! My husband, daughter and I all liked them. I made followed the recipe as written, leaving some plain, rolling some in turbinado sugar, and rolled some in some "sparkling sugar" crystals. The sparkling sugar crystals were the favorite. My pic shows, from left to right, a plain cookie, turbinado-rolled, and crystal-rolled. We could not taste the ginger. That could have been because I used very old ginger (spices can lose their taste over time), a very dark/strong honey, or a combination of both. My dough was very dough-like. I wonder if the people who had problems with their dough didn't let their honey-mixture cool down enough. I moved my honey-mixture out of the pan (finishing cookies in a pan was just too weird for me to cope with) and let it cool in my mixer-bowl. The mixture was **slightly** warm to the touch when I finally lost patience and just started to add the flour. I scooped them with a 1-1/2 TBS spoon and 9 minutes in my convection oven was the perfect time!

The flavor is good, but they are really cakey. I wish the were chewier.