Molasses Cookies
Molasses Cookies

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, molasses cookies. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Combine the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger; blend into the molasses mixture. Add flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, salt and cloves; beat at low speed until well mixed. Divide dough in half; wrap each half in plastic food wrap. Rich, chewy molasses creations rank high on our list of most-coveted cookies.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have molasses cookies using 11 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Molasses Cookies:
  1. Take 6 cup flour
  2. Take 2 tbsp baking soda
  3. Take 1 1/2 tsp ground cloves
  4. Take 1 1/2 tsp ginger
  5. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  6. Take 1 1/2 tsp salt
  7. Make ready 2 1/2 cup shortening
  8. Make ready 3 cup sugar
  9. Take 3/4 cup molasses
  10. Prepare 3 eggs
  11. Prepare 3/4 tsp vanilla

Combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and ginger; stir into the molasses mixture. These molasses cookies are sort of like gingerbread cookies, but way better. They're packed with flavor (don't sleep on the black pepper) and they've got a soft, cake-like texture. In this cookie, molasses brings both sweetness and flavor.

Steps to make Molasses Cookies:
  1. in seperate non-mixing bowl, sift together and set aside
  2. flour, baking soda, cloves, ginger, cinnamon and salt
  3. using large mixing bowl
  4. cream soft shortening
  5. add sugar. Cream until light
  6. add molasses, eggs and vanilla
  7. beat well
  8. add sifted dry ingredients
  9. mix well
  10. chill dough in freezer
  11. HINT: put into smaller freezer bags about 1/2" to 1" thick for quicker chill time
  12. can store in freezer and make cookies whenever
  13. READY TO BAKE COOKIES?
  14. preheat oven to 375°F
  15. form dough into 1" balls
  16. roll in sugar and place on light colored cookie sheet
  17. HINT: put sugar in bag or container with lid and shake ball dough in sugar…shake n bake!
  18. HINT: these cookies tend to burn on bottoms easily using darker pans
  19. bake approx. 6-1/2 minutes
  20. cookies are done when tops look like starting cracks
  21. bottoms should be light brown when done…if too dark, shorten baking time and/or use lighter colored cookie sheet
  22. HINT: make sure your oven rack is furthest from heat source
  23. MAKES: over 20 dz cookies, but can make a dz or two at a time with storing dough in freezer

They're packed with flavor (don't sleep on the black pepper) and they've got a soft, cake-like texture. In this cookie, molasses brings both sweetness and flavor. Molasses is a thick, liquid by-product of sugar making. It gives these cookies a beautiful brown hue and homey taste, made even more irresistible by a blend of warming spices. What Does Molasses Do to Cookies?

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