How To Make Spicy Molasses Cookies
Enjoy a bite of fall with our flavorful molasses cookies! They make the perfect Thanksgiving desserts or for when you’re craving a gingerbread-like taste.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 4tbspraw turbinado sugardivided
- ¾cupwhole wheat pastry flour
- ⅓cupwhole wheat flour
- ½tspbaking soda
- ⅛tspsalt
- 6tbspunsalted butter
- ¾tspcinnamon
- ¾tspground ginger
- ¼tspground cloves
- ⅛tspground allspice
- ⅛tspground pepper
- ¼cupmolasseslight or dark
- 3tbspdark brown sugaror Muscovado sugar
- 1egg yolklarge
- ½tspvanilla extract
Instructions
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With an oven rack in the middle position, preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
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Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
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Pour 1 tablespoon of raw sugar into a small, shallow dish for rolling.
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In a medium bowl, whisk together the flours, baking soda and salt.
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In a small saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat.
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Stir in the cinnamon, ginger, cloves, allspice and pepper. Cook until fragrant for 1 to 2 minutes.
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Transfer the butter mixture to a large bowl and let cool slightly.
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Whisk the remaining 3 tablespoons raw sugar, brown sugar, egg yolk, vanilla and molasses into the melted butter mixture.
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Stir in the flour mixture until combined.
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Use a cookie dough scoop or spoons to scoop out about one tablespoon of dough at a time.
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Lightly shape into a ball and dunk half the cookie into the small bowl of raw sugar.
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Place each cookie on the baking sheet, sugar side up, leaving a couple of inches around each cookie.
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Bake the cookies until the edges are set but the centers are still soft, puffy and underdone for 9 to 12 minutes.
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Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes.
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Serve warm, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 1882.90kcal
- Fat: 10.84g
- Saturated Fat: 4.13g
- Trans Fat: 0.18g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 2.08g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 3.32g
- Carbohydrates: 440.20g
- Fiber: 31.92g
- Sugar: 259.02g
- Protein: 28.28g
- Cholesterol: 20.58mg
- Sodium: 1411.85mg
- Calcium: 842.32mg
- Potassium: 5964.49mg
- Iron: 25.93mg
- Vitamin A: 41.52µg
- Vitamin C: 0.86mg
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