Recipe: Tasty SOFT GINGER MOLASSES COOKIES

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SOFT GINGER MOLASSES COOKIES. Beat in the egg, then stir in the water and molasses. Gradually stir the sifted ingredients into the molasses mixture. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

SOFT GINGER MOLASSES COOKIES A homemade cookie perfect for the holidays and heartfelt gifts. Gingersnap cookies were a childhood favorite of mine, and my grandma always had them ready and waiting when we would come to visit. Dark, rich, and soft/chewy, these are everything you'd expect in an old-fashioned ginger-molasses cookie. You can cook SOFT GINGER MOLASSES COOKIES using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of SOFT GINGER MOLASSES COOKIES

  1. It's 3/4 cup of butter.
  2. Prepare 1 cup of light brown sugar, packed.
  3. It's 1 of egg.
  4. Prepare 1/3 cup of molasses.
  5. It's 2 1/4 cup of all purpose flour.
  6. It's 2 tsp of baking soda.
  7. You need 1 tsp of cinnamon.
  8. It's 1 tsp of ginger.
  9. You need 1 tsp of ground cloves.
  10. It's 1 of granulated white sugar on a saucer for rolling cookies in.

For a slightly lighter cookie with milder, more "gingery" flavor, substitute ginger syrup (or see the recipe below) for some of the molasses, as directed. I simply adore soft, chewy molasses cookies. You can literally let your teeth sink into these babies. The texture of these soft ginger molasses cookies is so perfect.

SOFT GINGER MOLASSES COOKIES instructions

  1. Preheat oven 375°F.
  2. in small bowl stir together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves together.
  3. in a medium bowl, cream butter, brown sugar and egg until light and fluffy.
  4. add flour mixture to butter mixture, mix well.
  5. roll dough into small balls, roll in granulated sugar.
  6. lightly flatten on an ungreased cookie sheet.
  7. bake 9 minutes, cookies will be very soft to the touch...let cool on cookie sheet 10 minutes before moving to a plate.
  8. do not over bake or cookies will be hard.

I wish every cookie could be so dense, chewy and flavorful! It's really difficult to eat just one cookie, but honestly, I don't even try. Classic soft and chewy ginger molasses cookies - these delectable, holiday (or anytime) treats are like gingerbread in cookie form! These chewy, ginger molasses cookies are the epitome of holiday flavors, if you ask me. They make your house smell like Christmas.