Ginger Bar Cookies Recipe

Combine flour, brown sugar, ginger, baking powder and salt in mixing bowl. Add butter and cut in with pastry blender until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Add crystallized ginger and stir with fork until blended.

With lightly floured fingertips, press dough in even layer into lightly butter ed 13-by-9-by-2-inch baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees on center rack 20 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Cool in pan on wire rack before cutting into bars. Make ahead and freeze or wrap in foil and store at room temperature up to 1 week.