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Molasses Sugar Cookies
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Molasses Sugar Cookie
3/4 cup softened butter
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup molasses
1 egg
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg (original recipe called for cloves, but I don’t care for cloves so I substitute nutmeg)
In a large bowl beat together the butter and sugar until creamy. Add molasses and egg, beating until well blended.
In medium bowl, blend flour, soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger; add to molasses mixture, mix well. Cover and chill.
Form dough into 1 inch balls, roll each in sugar, place 2 inches apart on cookie sheet.
Bake at 375 degrees for 6-8 minutes. Let stand 1 minute before removing. Makes around 5 dozen. (I tend to get 3 dozen, but they’re so good I like a bigger cookie)
To make Gingerbread, just cut 1/4 cup butter and increase the molasses.
These are a soft, melt in your mouth, one is never enough kind of cookie. Enjoy!
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I gave up most sweets years ago, but if I still indulged, I’m sure I’d like these. They look yummy. I can almost smell them baking. =)
Laughing because I just pulled the last batch out of the oven and thought, man, if the folks on line could just smell these.
I try to limit myself, but I’m a definite sweet tooth kind of girl. I had Jillian Michael’s hollering at me from my DVD player to push harder this morning, so I figure I can have one…. or two.
This sounds like a delectable Christmas treat! My favorite Christmas recipe is for reindeer cookies. You use regular peanut butter cookie batter, and put two balls of dough together like the bottom two sections of a snowman, but upside down. You press down and put two pretzels on the top for antlers, and M&Ms for eyes and nose. (The larger section forms the head, and the smaller section forms the mouth.) Cute!
These look really good Melissa! I’ve been thinking about making some Christmas cookies with my daughter. I’ll have to try this.
Keidy, these are great to make w/ kids. My 2 year old was in charge of rolling the balls in the sugar. She also thought every time the oven dinged for each batch that she’d get another cookie. She ended up with two cookies, but then I had to cut her off.
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