honey sugar cookies

These are the easiest cookies to make!  6 ingredients, a half hour, and you are good to go!  I found this recipe after days of searching for baking recipes that call for honey in place of sugar, or at least honey that decreases the excessive amount of sugar.  I hope you like these cookies as much as my household has!

P.S. I didn't grow up in the kitchen, so feel free to ignore the little notes I write to myself throughout my recipes.  I'm just trying to make my life easier :)  Oh, and always buy local when you can (like locally farmed honey...is honey farmed?).  Support your town!  One last thing, I just learned that the hard cookies i mention below, soften right up if you pop them in the microwave for 10 seconds.

HONEY SUGAR COOKIES

Ingredients

_   ½ cup butter, at room temperature

_   ½ cup honey*

_   ¼ cup sugar

_   1 ½ cup whole wheat flour

_   ½ tsp baking soda

_   1/8 tsp salt

_   1 cup sugar (for rolling)

Directions

Preheat your oven to 300.  In a bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt.  In a separate bowl, cream butter and ¼ cup of sugar.  Add honey and cream well.  Slowly add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, finishing by hand so that you do not over mix the dough.  (It is delicious at this point, my dough almost did not make it to the oven.)  Chill the dough for 10 minutes.  Drop rounded spoonfuls into the 1 cup of sugar to coat, and place on a parchment lined cookie sheet.  Bake 15 to 18 minutes…not longer, because they get hard if the honey cooks too long.

*I just learned that honey is much more workable if you heat it for about 15 seconds in the microwave, and spray the measuring cup with PAM, before you measure the honey.