Molasses Spice Cookies. Now you have molasses spice cookies, so good! The Incredible Hulk of molasses cookies. This recipe for these cookies is barely adapted from Cook's Illustrated's Best Recipe Cookbook, and is.
Ingredients of Molasses Spice Cookies
- You need of Wet.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of butter.
- It’s 1 cup of sugar.
- You need 1/4 cup of molasses.
- Prepare 1 of egg.
- It’s of Dry.
- It’s 2 cups of flour.
- It’s 2 tsp of baking soda.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of cloves.
- You need 1 tsp of cinnamon.
- It’s 1 tsp of ground ginger.
- You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
Nothing is better on a cold day than a warm molasses spice cookie; try making these to taste it for yourself! Molasses Spice Cookies from Cook's Illustrated. Bake the cookies one sheet at a time. If baked two sheets at a time, the cookies started on the bottom rack won't develop the attractive cracks.
Molasses Spice Cookies step by step
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Melt butter on stove or in microwave.
- Combine butter, sugar and molasses.
- Set mixture aside, allowing it to cool a little in the fridge.
- In a separate bowl, combine the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly..
- Remove wet mixture from fridge and stir in the egg.
- Add dry ingredients to the wet batter a little at a time until fully mixed..
- Form dough in roughly golf-ball sized balls..
- Optional: For sweeter, crisper cookies, roll the balls in sugar before baking..
- Bake on greased cookie sheet for 9 to 10 minutes..
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