I had planned to make these cookies at Christmas time but since we got together so early in December to celebrate, I ran out of time. Yesterday I whipped up a batch of them. They are a softer type of gingerbread cookie.
MOLASSES COOKIES
3/4 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup molasses
2 and 1/4 cups flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cloves
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ginger
Cream together butter and brown sugar, add molasses and egg, beating well after each addition. Mix in the flour, soda, and spices thoroughly. Roll into balls and into granulated sugar and bake on greased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for approximately 10 minutes. Cool slightly and remove from cookie sheet.
If dough is too sticky, chill first before rolling into balls. Check oven after 8 minutes as all ovens bake differently. And if you are going to all of the trouble to make homemade cookies, go ahead and make a double batch!
Enjoy!
The cookies look a little pale because of the flash on my camera, they do bake up a bit darker.
😋They look pretty durn tasty!
They are!
I didn’t make any molasses or any ginger cookies this year. I was going to make some and send them to Suzi but I sent the ones she sent me that we both liked, instead. I love ginger of all things. I hope to make some soon. I’m all baked out right now. lol. I did make a Pistachio lush pie yesterday.
I had planned on making them for Christmas, but since we got together really early to celebrate, I didn’t get a lot of stuff made. Next time…I’m making sugar cookies! Or maybe those Lofthouse cookies?
I did make some sugar cookies but they were the (Lofthouse) ones, and not rolled. Soft and frosted. Ugh…I do love sugar cookies and when I was 20. years old, my landlady had 2 little girls and their Grandmother would make sugar cookies every holiday for them. I asked for her recipe and it’s been a curse for me ever since. The main change in that recipe was to use a better choice for the fat than Crisco. I use Country Crock plant sticks instead. It’s still good and rolls out and bakes nicely if I want to use cutters. If I get a little melancholy… I get out all those cookie cutters from childhood and roll the dough.
We are supposed to get a ton of snow on Monday…thinking it might be a good cookie making day then…
Yes! Or pie. lol. Be safe and stay warm. Snow for us tonight, and melting in the morning. Slop and more slop.
😲😲😲
😀 I don’t care…I’ll be in bed keeping warm.
Pie…hmmm, I guess I could make a pecan pie, still have some leftover pecans from Christmas…or I could make Suzi’s favorite pumpkin! 😉
Suzi’s favorite pie is…APPLE. 😂
I think I have about six apples…I guess I could make a small apple pie! Or some turnovers!
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It amuses me how quickly you both forget that I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!!!
Ditto!….Hmmmm….Fruit of the month club, wonder if they would just do apples? Gold belly does have a nice apple pie assortment. What about…..applejacks cereal? Can you do the cereal?
And so it begins!😂😂😂
