How To Make Soft and Easy Molasses Cookies
With their perfectly-cracked tops and chewy texture, molasses cookies makes a classic holiday treat with warm flavors of cinnamon, cloves, and ginger.
Serves:
Ingredients
- ¾cupshortening
- 1cupbrown sugar,packed
- 1egg
- ½cuplight molasses
- 2½cupsall purpose flour
- 1tspsalt
- 2tspbaking soda
- ½tspground cloves
- 1tspground cinnamon
- 1tspground ginger
Instructions
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Cream together the shortening and brown sugar. Stir in the egg and molasses, then mix well.
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Fold in the flour, salt, baking soda, cloves, cinnamon, and ginger, then stir.
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Cover and chill for 1 to 2 hours or until firm.
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
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Roll the dough into small balls, then roll them in the white sugar. Place the cookies on lightly greased cookie sheets.
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Bake for 9 to 10 minutes. Leave the cookies on the cookie sheet for 1 minute until set.
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Serve warm with milk, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 100.36kcal
- Fat: 4.48g
- Saturated Fat: 1.12g
- Trans Fat: 0.56g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 1.81g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.26g
- Carbohydrates: 14.19g
- Fiber: 0.29g
- Sugar: 7.44g
- Protein: 1.06g
- Cholesterol: 4.44mg
- Sodium: 74.92mg
- Calcium: 15.92mg
- Potassium: 86.09mg
- Iron: 0.70mg
- Vitamin A: 1.93µg
- Vitamin C: 0.00mg
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