Ingredients:
Wet
- 3/4 cup shortening
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 unbeaten egg
- 1/4 cup honey
Dry
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- Extra sugar for rolling
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 350. Lightly grease a cookie sheet, or line it with parchment paper.
- Mix the wet ingredients well.
- Add dry ingredients, except for sugar, and stir until combined.
- Form the dough into balls and roll them in the sugar. Place them on the cookie sheet. Allow them space to spread; they will flatten as they bake.
- Bake at 350 for 9-12 minutes. The cookies should be golden brown on top, but not dark brown. When they come out of the oven, the cookies will be very soft, but they begin to harden within just a few minutes.
Notes: Instead of rolling the dough into balls, you can cut out or mold shapes. This dough does spread a lot when it bakes. To reduce the spreading, chill the dough in the fridge for at least an hour before shaping; then shape and bake as quickly as possible. Also, because the rolled out and cut shapes are thinner than the normal cookie balls, the cooking time might be shorter--but chilling the dough makes the cooking time longer. So you will just need to check earlier, but it may still take the normal time. It depends on how cold the dough is by the time you get it in the oven.