These molasses cookies make the perfect holiday treat and have become one of my favorite holiday cookies to make!
Little A and I have started our holiday baking! I love all the holiday goodies she chose for us to make this month. The first recipe we made last week was molasses cookies. This was my first stab at the famed holiday cookie and they turned out pretty darn good!
Have I told you how much I love baking with my girl? Usually I give her a bowl and some flour and she “makes” her own cookies. But this time she actually helped with the recipe. I love that we’re able to spend time together doing something we love; and that I’m able to pass on my love of baking to her.
They are thicker and fluffier than other molasses cookies I’ve tried, but if you prefer a crunchier cookie, let them sit a day or two and they get a bit of a crunch.
Molasses Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 1 cup sugar plus extra for coating
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1/4 cup molasses
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves and salt together. Set aside.
- In bowl of stand mixer, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the egg.
- Add water and molasses and mix to combine.
- Add in flour mixture in 2 additions.
- Add a 1/4 cup of sugar to a small bowl.
- Roll dough into 1 inch balls and coat in sugar.
- Place cookies on parchment lined cookie sheet and press to slightly flatten.
- Bake 8-10 minutes. Allow cookies to cool on cookie sheet for 5 minutes, then remove to wire rack to cool completely.
Little cookie monster trying to get her hands on some yummy goodness. Love those little hands.
Enjoy!
Where can I place my order?! But seriously these look so good!!
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Lol! I really think opening a bakery is my next adventure. Oh maybe some day.
Yum!! I think I’ll make these for Thanksgiving with my dad 🙂 Look delicious!
Nice! I’m just continuing to feed the office. 🙂
I LOVE that last pic with the cute chubby hand grabbing a cookie! Ahhhhh!! 🙂
I know, me too. It’s my favorite. 🙂
Okay, just to clarify, is this a ginger snap? The ingredients make me think it’s a ginger snap.
Sounds yummy regardless. I’ll have to give your recipe a whirl.
Wishing you a lovely day.
xoxo
No, it’s different than a ginger snap, but similar. It is a good recipe; really happy with it.
Aweee!! I love the pic of the little hand too!! I always look at my son and his cuteness. I told him we would make cookies soon. These look GOOD!! AS IN: Y~U~M!!!
Definitely my favorite pic. I bet he’ll have a blast making cookies with you.
Wow I’ve never heard of these before. When I think of molasses I think yuck, but I believe you when you say these taste so yummy. I love chewy cookies, too!
Really?! I used to think the same thing about molasses, but these are actually really good cookies.
These look so good! I never get very creative when it comes to cookies, but I want to give these a try this year!
For my first time making them I was pleasantly surprised how much I liked them. Good luck!
This is just making me all kinds of hungry. I actually have molasses so I’ll have to pin this and try them later!
HAHA! Any photos of cookies makes me hungry. 🙂 Hope you are able to try them!
That looks delicious! I love cookies 😀
Thanks Sarah! I love cookies too. A little too much. 🙂
If I had to choose my top three favorite cookies, Molasses Cookies are in there. I have a recipe similar to yours and I love how soft they are on the inside and a tad of crunch on the outside. Oldie but goodie cookies are the best. Thanks for sharing on our Cookie Swap today.
I love the softness with the crunch as well! So good!