MOLASSES COOKIES
These Molasses Cookies are a classic! Easy to make and always a hit and excellent to share with friends and family.
If you love these cookies you will also love our Gingersnaps. They are an old-fashioned recipe we have made for many years.
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❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE
Molasses cookies are just wonderful this time of the year and make your house smell so good while they are baking in the oven. Molasses cookies make the perfect gift for family and friends. These are also wonderful with a cup of coffee! The spices are perfect!
🍴KEY INGREDIENTS
- butter
- brown sugar
- egg
- Molasses (I use sorghum, you can use any kind of molasses)
- all-purpose flour
- baking soda
- ground cinnamon
- ground ginger
🍽️HOW TO MAKE
These cookies are really easy to make, the longest part of the whole process is letting the dough chill for an hour.
COOKING STEPS
Step 1
Cream together the butter, brown sugar and egg. Stir in molasses. Add flour and baking soda, cinnamon and ginger.
Step 2
Cover the dough and chill one hour in refrigerator. Make the dough into walnut sized balls and roll in granulated sugar.
Step 3
Preheat oven to 350 degrees, spray cookie sheet. Place cookies 2 inches apart and press down with fork dipped in sugar. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Makes about 40 cookies.
⭐TIP
I think these cookies are even better the next day, so you can easily make them in advance. They are soft in the center which we love. You can always heat them up a little too, if you like warm cookies.
Here are more tips on baking cookies!
RECIPE VARIATIONS
If you love cookies, you will want to check out our Coffee Dunking Cookies. They are delicious! Also these Ice Oatmeal Raisin Cookies are a classic that your family will love.
❓FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
You over cooked them. Cookies should look a little underdone when removed from the oven and should be light around the edges. Cookies will continue to cook from the heat of the cookie sheet once removed.
We have it at our local grocery store but you can buy it online. The Amish stores in our community sells molasses.
STORING
We always store our cookies in an airtight container.
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SERVING SIZE
This recipe makes about 40 cookies depending on the size you make them. That is about 10-12 servings.
Molasses Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup softened butter or two sticks or 16 tablespoons
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup molasses I use sorghum, you can use any kind of molasses
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
Instructions
- Cream together the butter, brown sugar and egg. Stir in molasses. Add flour and baking soda, cinnamon and ginger. Cover the dough and chill one hour in refrigerator.
- Make the dough into walnut sized balls and roll in granulated sugar. Preheat oven to 350 degrees, spray cookie sheet. Place cookies 2 inches apart and press down with fork dipped in sugar. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Makes about 40 cookies.
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For those that are trying Brer Rabbit mollases I just checked Amazon and they carry it.
I grew up seeing many household using molasses as an ingredient in many baked products. Your cookies looks delicious . Love the simplicoty of the ingredients.
what Can I use in place of ginger? All spice?
Yes, that would probably work, Angela.
Really? They do not taste anything like each other. Allspice is very potent too!
Well, anytime you change a recipe from the original it will not taste the same anyway.
These are so good!!! Will make another batch tomorrow. Family favorite with hot apple cider.
Where can I order sorghum? I can’t find it here in Mich. and its my favorite.
Check the internet or google it, you can sometimes find it online.
is this recipe a soft cookie?
It is not hard but not real soft if that makes any sense. My sister is in her 80s and cannot have a lot of hard food but she eats these cookies and loves them.
My grandmother, in Kentucky, used to make these all of the time. She kept a stash for when the grandchildren all came. That has been over 60 years ago.
I had forgotten how good they were. Thanks for sharing.
Believe it or not I just made these with blackstrap molasses. My husband loves them. They are not as sweet and probably stronger tasting. We are going to try putting raisins in next time. Thanks for all your wonderful recipes. I love your sight.
I will be making these wonderful molasses cookies I have only made them one time.My son-in- law loved them ,he calls me a chef, I’m not But I so do enjoy cooking and Baking …
These are my husbands favorite cookies, his grandma used to make them for him all the time! Glad I found a recipe to carry on the tradition with! Thanks for sharing!
This is the same recipe I received from my Mother. Adored the taste and smell when growing up. I have baked these for my children and now grandchildren…a real family favorite! May I suggest the use of Brer Rabbit molasses? It has the most intense flavor and in my experience has resulted in the best tasting molasses cookie.
I will check for Brer Rabbit molasses. Don’t remember seeing them around here in the grocery. I usually use sorghum molasses in these that I get from the Amish. It is really good, too.
That’s the brand I use, maybe it’s only available in some parts of the country. I love a molasses or ginger cookie, with crunch on the outside and chewy inside. ‘Tis the season for these, yum!
Love the Molasses Cookies….Make them again today.
Just in case you missed it, we wanted to share the link from Friday…
http://gooseberrypatch.typepad.com/blog/2011/09/ff-take-a-bloggy-tour.html
This yummy recipe was part of our bloggy tour…thanks for sharing it! 🙂
WOW, Jennifer! I did miss it and thanks for sharing with me now and for sharing my recipe. I was babysitting my 4 year old grandson on Friday and over the weekend. He keeps me running constantly!
It’s like you heard my wish and made it come true, Judy! My cooking-loving, almost-96-year-old friend Chuck is originally from the South — and his latest requests have been for molasses cookies. I’ve been searching for the perfect recipe — and yours is it. Thanks so much for sharing this!
Judy, I’ve been wanting to bake something good ~ and I think these cookies will do it! I’m always confident your recipes will turn out nicely 🙂 Have a great Friday & weekend!
My mouth is watering! I love molasses cookies and will be making these soon. SO glad you shared – thank you!
Making these this week-end!! Sounds wonderful! I love, love this site!