Steps to Prepare Ultimate Molasses Cookies

Molasses Cookies. Homemade soft molasses cookies with crackly tops are super chewy and perfectly spiced. Molasses cookies have always been my top choice because they bring me right back to my childhood. When storing these (and other cookies) store a piece of bread with them to keep them moist.

Molasses Cookies are a year round favorite, but they are especially popular during the Holiday season. Big and chewy molasses spice cookies! Like gingersnap cookies, but thicker and chewier.

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Molasses Cookies is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It's simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Molasses Cookies is something which I have loved my entire life.

Homemade soft molasses cookies with crackly tops are super chewy and perfectly spiced. Molasses cookies have always been my top choice because they bring me right back to my childhood. When storing these (and other cookies) store a piece of bread with them to keep them moist.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have molasses cookies using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Molasses Cookies:

1. {Take of Dry Ingredients.
2. {Make ready 2 cup of Flour.
3. {Get 2 tsp of Baking Soda.
4. {Prepare 2 tsp of Cinnamon.
5. {Make ready 1 1/2 tsp of Ground Ginger.
6. {Make ready 1 tsp of Ground Cloves.
7. {Get 1 tsp of Salt.
8. {Make ready of Wet Ingredients.
9. {Prepare 1/2 cup of Shortening.
10. {Get 1/4 cup of Butter, at room tempetature.
11. {Take 1 cup of Brown Sugar, packed.
12. {Take 1 of Egg.
13. {Make ready 1/4 cup of Dark Molasses.
14. {Take of Topping.
15. {Prepare 4 cup of Ice Water.
16. {Prepare 1 cup of Sugar.

Now you have molasses spice cookies, so good! The Incredible Hulk of molasses cookies. These molasses cookies are sort of like gingerbread cookies, but way better. What you CAN'T use is blackstrap molasses, which is more bitter and less sweet than its lighter counterparts.

Steps to make Molasses Cookies:

1. Preheat oven to 350°f.
2. Sift flour into medium sized bowl. Add the baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and salt. Mix thoroughly..
3. In a large bowl, add the shortening, butter and brown sugar. Beat until fluffy..
4. Add the egg and dark molasses to the wet ingredients and mix just until combined..
5. Mix the dry ingredients into the wet mixture..
6. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour..
7. After 1 hour, remove dough from fridge. Put ice water into a small bowl. Put sugar on dinner plate..
8. Roll dough into balls (about golf ball size) and then quickly dip into the ice water, then roll the ball in the sugar. Place dough balls onto greased cookie sheet..
9. Bake in preheated oven for 10 to 20 minutes (until cookies are cracked on top, golden and soft)..
10. Let cookies rest for 5 minutes on cookie sheet, then move them to wire rack to cool..
11. Enjoy warm with a tall glass of milk!.

The molasses cookie recipe you need to bookmark for every holiday season. These things are perfectly chewy for days and days. These cookies are made with molasses (obviously) and warm spices. Some molasses cookies can be a little overpowering with the amount of spices, but these cookies have the perfect balance. Ginger molasses cookies are a classic holiday cookie that has been enjoyed by generations of home cooks, and now you!

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