Chocolate gingerbread cookies!

Today i spent the afternoon watching/being distracted by an array of cooking shows on food television which inspired me to get into the kitchen to make some treats... Brandon LOVES cookies, in fact entirely anything that is sweet. I have several options, my new cookbook that my mother in law gave me for our wedding (to ensure her angel was going to be looked after.. of course), the array of recipes i have stuffed into the front of this new cookbook, written on the back of envelopes/to-do lists/printing paper and some from my travels around Europe last year, and also some amazing food blogs i've been introduced to. In this case however i somehow ended up on the Martha Stewart website, feeling very domestic and wife like. So out come all (minus a couple) of the ingredients, I like to think of my cooking style as creative/improvisational/adventurous.. I managed to get half way through Martha's complicated instructions before i abandoned the confines of her strict online recipe and took control.. in this case it worked, but it doesn't always end in the delight that i may hope for, my husband has become an expert at comforting me when my cakes don't rise or i burn things, this is his advice "baby, don't find your worth in cupcakes, they are only cupcakes!" he sees the bigger picture, i see a disaster in a small tin.

So here it is, my healthier version of Martha Stewart's Chewy Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies

1/2 cup chocolate chips/any kind of chocolate really
1 1/2 cups plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 1/4 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon mixed spice
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter
1/4 cup molasses
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/3 cup honey
1 egg

In a medium bowl, sift together flour, ground ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cocoa. In another bowl mix together butter (softened a little), honey, and molasses. Combine all ingredients and add baking soda dissolved in 1 1/2 teaspoons boiling water, mix together and add egg and then finally chocolate chips. Make into cookies shapes and put on baking on trays, cook for about 12 minutes at 180. Enjoy! X
Ps these can be made gluten free by replacing the all-purpose flour with rice flour or whatever type of gluten free flour you like, it would probably be a good idea to put in about a teaspoon of xanthan or guar gum as a gluten replacer to hold it all together too.

p.s i like how the cookie looks like the shape of Africa...