Molasses Spice Cookies
These Molasses Spice Cookies are a delicious treat that combines the warmth of molasses with a perfect blend of spices.
Servings: 12
Calories: 390kcal
Ingredients
- ¾ cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- ⅓ cup molasses
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- ½ teaspoon ground pepper
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup coarse sugar
Instructions
- In a large bowl using a stand-mixer or handheld mixer, cream together butter, brown sugar, and sugar for 3 minutes.
- Add eggs one at a time, incorporating each before adding the other. Add themolasses and mix. Then add the vanilla and mix in.
- In a medium bowl add the flour, baking soda, ginger, cloves, pepper, and salt and whisk all ingredients together.
- Add flour mixture to butter mixture and mix just until flour is mixed in.
- Refrigerate the batter for at least an hour or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Scoop dough with a regular cookie scoop or ice cream scoop and roll into a balland roll ball in coarse sugar. Place on cookie sheet.
- Bake cookies for 12-14 minutes, start checking at 10 minutes, adding 1-2 minuteseach time.
- Remove from oven and cool on cookie sheet. Enjoy!
Notes
This recipe makes 10-12 large or 16-20 regular cookies.
Make sure the dough is well chilled. If the dough is pretty solid, press the cookie ball down a little before baking.
Make sure the ingredients are completely mixed in, but do not over-mix the batter.
Nutrition
Calories: 390kcal | Carbohydrates: 66g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.5g | Cholesterol: 58mg | Sodium: 391mg | Potassium: 214mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 42g | Vitamin A: 395IU | Vitamin C: 0.001mg | Calcium: 49mg | Iron: 2mg