Recipe: Perfect Molasses Sugar Cookies

Molasses Sugar Cookies. In a large bowl, combine the oil, sugar and molasses. Combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, cloves and ginger; add to sugar mixture and mix well. These chewy cookies are made with molasses, brown sugar and shortening. To achieve the chewy texture, allow cookies to cool on a flat surface rather than a rack. This Molasses Sugar Cookies recipe is a holiday tradition at my house and I know it will be at your's too!

MOLASSES SUGAR COOKIES Like this recipe? Pin it to your DESSERT pinboard! I like to eat fresh cookies and a large variety of different cookies. You can cook Molasses Sugar Cookies using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Molasses Sugar Cookies

1. You need 3/4 cup of shortening.
2. It's 2 cup of flour.
3. It's 1 cup of sugar.
4. It's 1/4 cup of molasses.
5. It's 1 of egg.
6. You need 2 tsp of baking soda.
7. Prepare 1/2 tsp of ground cloves.
8. It's 1/2 tsp of ginger.
9. It's 1 tsp of cinnamon.
10. Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.

A version of this recipe appears on the back of the jars of Grandma's and Brer Rabbit molasses, and for good reason. These chewy, crinkly, spiced sugar cookies are the perfect showcase for what molasses can do. Like brown sugar, molasses gives a firm chewiness to cookies and adds a rich, caramelized sweetness. I love all the warm spices, too—they are excellent for cold weather.

Molasses Sugar Cookies step by step

1. Preheat oven to 375.
2. Melt shortening; let cool.
3. Mix all ingredients..
4. Chill dough for at least 1 hour.
5. Form into 1 inch balls; roll in granulated sugar and place on greased cookie sheet, 2 inches apart..
6. Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes..

Molasses cookies meet chewy sugar cookies to make one perfect dessert. While there's a lot more to the season than decorating (and eating) Christmas cookies , it wouldn't be Christmas without a lot of homemade, festive, 'tis-the-season-type of cookies. What's the difference between these molasses sugar cookies and a gingersnap? No, really, if I don't catch the cookie at the right moment-still soft and slightly undercooked in the center and quickly removed from the oven-they end up hard and more like a gingersnap. Combine butter, brown sugar, shortening, molasses and egg in bowl.