Ingredients:

•  2 1/4 cups flour
•  2 TSP ground ginger
•  1 TSP baking soda
•  3/4 TSP cinnamon
•  1/2 TSP ground cloves
•  1/4 TSP salt
•  3/4 cup of softened butter
•  1 cup granulated sugar
•  1 egg
•  1 TBSP water
•  1/4 cup molasses

Directions: 

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. 

First start off by mixing the dry ingredients : flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, and salt. Set this aside. 

Start to cream together your butter and sugar. When creamed, add the egg and mix together. Once well mixed add the water and molasses and mix well. Then gradually add the dry mixture while mixing. You should be left with a dough consistency. 

Flour a rolling pin and a surface to cut your cookies. I used a snowflake cutter but to make round ones just place about walnut sized balls onto a cookie sheet. 

Place your cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet, sprinkle the tops with sugar, and place in the oven for 10 to 12 minutes.

Let cool then you can glaze them. I mixed together powdered sugar with a little bit of water until I got the consistency I wanted and I attempted to make a snowflake design on the cookies.

Enjoy!

First you are going to warm up your Apple Cider (I used Musselman's Apple Cider Juice) by pouring it into a small pot and heating it on medium heat. This shouldn't come to a boil. I measured the cider with a mug and placed two mug fulls into the pot because I was making two servings.

While that is warming up you are going to start making the syrup. This will make a lot of extra syrup so you can keep it in your fridge to use again. In another sauce pan you are going to mix together the sugar, brown sugar, flour, Cinnamon, and water. Then  place it on medium heat and bring to a boil. You are going to want to heat this and continually stir until it has a syrupy consistency. When it starts to thicken, take it off the heat and then stir in the vanilla. Then you are done with the syrup.

Once your apple cider is heated up just pour it into your mug and add in around 3 tablespoons of the syrup (more or less to taste. Now you can enjoy a nice warm dring on a cool fall day! Enjoy!