Molasses Cookies Recipe
🕒 Total Time: 30 minutes
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
🥣 Yield: Approximately 5 dozen cookies
📝 Description: These simple-to-make molasses cookies are perfect for packing into lunch boxes or serving as an after-school snack. This recipe, originally featured in Bon Appetit (October, 1990), offers a delightful blend of flavors that are sure to please both kids and adults alike. The prep time includes a brief period of refrigeration, allowing the dough to firm up for easier handling.
🍪 Ingredients:
- 3/4 cup vegetable shortening
- 1 cup sugar, plus extra for coating
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 1 egg
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
🔪 Instructions:
- Preheat your oven to 375°F (190°C).
- Prepare your cookie sheets by spraying them with cooking spray.
- Melt the vegetable shortening in a small saucepan over low heat.
- Transfer the melted shortening to a large bowl and allow it to cool.
- Mix in 1 cup of sugar, molasses, and the egg into the cooled shortening.
- Combine the dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, salt, and nutmeg) in a separate bowl.
- Stir the dry ingredients into the shortening, sugar, and molasses mixture until well combined.
- Cover the dough and refrigerate it for at least 10 minutes to firm up.
- Place the additional sugar (about 1/4 cup) in a bowl.
- Shape the dough into 1-inch balls and roll each ball in the sugar to coat evenly.
- Arrange the coated dough balls on the prepared cookie sheets, spacing them about 2 inches apart.
- Bake the cookies in the preheated oven for 8-10 minutes, or until they are barely set. They will continue to set as they cool.
- Transfer the baked cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.
Enjoy these delicious molasses cookies as a tasty treat any time of day!
