These chewy molasses cookies contain just enough ginger, cloves, and cinnamon to bring out nostalgic memories of the holidays. These are easy to make and can be spiced with cinnamon imperials for a more festive look.
Chewy Molasses Cookies Just Like Grandma Made
Just look below at all these yummy ingredients! Life is good with fresh ingredients, a mixer, friends, and family in the kitchen.
Items Needed In The Kitchen
- Kitchen Aid Mixer
- Mixing bowls
- Measuring cups
- Measuring spoons
- Cookie sheets
- Cookie Spatula
- Cookie scoop
- Parchment paper
Step One
Cream the butter with the white granulated sugar.
Step Two
Add the brown sugar to the eggs and keep mixing it.
Step Three
Add the molasses to the sugar and egg mixture. Cream together.
Step Four
Combine the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl.
Step Five
Add the dry mixture to the butter, sugars, and egg mixture. Mix thoroughly.
Step Six
Mix it all. Oh, I wish you could smell the blackstrap molasses. Cover the mixture with plastic wrap and refrigerate it for an hour.
Step Seven
Grab a bowl and fill it with sugar, just enough granulated sugar to roll the cookie balls in to cover them completely with sugar. I use a cookie scoop to pull the dough from the mixing bowl, then roll the dough with your hands to form the ball.
Step Eight
Grease a cookie sheet, or use parchment paper to cover it. Preheat the oven to (350°F − 32) = (176°C) degrees. Roll each ball in sugar, and bake for 8-10 minutes. Cool on a rack.
After you bake them you can add some cinnamon imperials, if desired, while the cookies are still warm.
Serve with milk or hot chocolate.
Tie it with a ribbon and deliver some to a neighbor.
Chewy Molasses Cookies
Chewy Molasses Cookies
Ingredients
- 1-1/2 cups softened butter
- 1 cup white sugar (more for rolling balls of dough in)
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup molasses
- 2 eggs
- 4-1/2 cups flour
- 4 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 tablespoon ground ginger
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon salt
- cinnamon imperial pieces (optional)
Instructions
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Preheat oven to (350°F − 32) = (176°C) degrees.
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Use a mixing bowl to cream butter and sugars together. Add in eggs and mix on medium speed.
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Pour in molasses and cream with butter. In a separate medium-sized bowl, combine dry ingredients.
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Combine wet and dry ingredients until well mixed. Cover and refrigerate for one hour.
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With your hands, roll dough into one-inch balls. Roll each ball in sugar. Place on your cookie sheet.
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Bake for 8-10 minutes. Make sure you don’t overcook these.
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The bottoms should be lightly browned. Store in an airtight container for up to a week.
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Optional idea: After removing the cookies from the oven, place a few cinnamon imperial pieces in the cookies.
Final Word
I don’t know about you, but I think about Christmas when I hear gingerbread or molasses. Do you love chewy molasses cookies as much as I do?
We moved up north, but our grandkids are not so little anymore. Life isn’t the same without little ones around. Please grab a bowl and a wooden spoon when your kids or grandkids visit. Making memories with grandchildren is such a blessing; I miss those days.
One of my best memories is of making soft molasse cookies together. Please keep prepping; we must. May God bless this world, Linda
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