Spiced molasses cookies. Now you have molasses spice cookies, so good! This recipe for these cookies is barely adapted from Cook's Illustrated's Best Recipe Cookbook, and is one of our favorites! Homemade soft molasses cookies with crackly tops are super chewy and perfectly spiced. Molasses cookies have always been my top choice because they bring me right back to my childhood. There are some cookie recipes you just like to make every year during the holidays because everyone loves them.

Molasses, also known as black treacle is a thick syrup sweetener produced as a bi-product of sugar production from. These spiced molasses cookies have added applesauce to help keep the cookies moist, and whole-wheat flour and oats to incorporate whole grains. These spiced molasses cookies aren't your typical molasses cookie. You can have Spiced molasses cookies using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Spiced molasses cookies

Prepare 1 cup of butter, softened.
You need 1 1/2 cup of sugar.
Prepare 1/2 cup of molasses.
It's 2 of eggs, lightly beaten.
It's 4 cup of all-purpose flour.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
You need 2 1/4 tsp of baking soda.
Prepare 2 1/4 tsp of ground ginger.
It's 1 1/2 tsp of ground cloves.
Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon.

I've added a little bit of cayenne and cardamom to my traditional recipe. It adds the perfect back-of-the-throat warmth that you won't. I also dipped all the cookies in. Molasses Cookies Recipe This classic recipe for the spiced cookie is an oldie but goodie and a delicious addition to your holiday cookie collection.

Spiced molasses cookies step by step

Cream butter and sugar until light coloured and fluffy.
beat in molasses and eggs.
In another bowl combine flour, salt, soda, ginger, cloves and cinnamon. Whisk together.
Gradually mix flour mixture into creamed ingredients until blended and smooth.
Roll dough into 1 1/2 inch balls.
Dip tops into granulated sugar.
Placed into greased cookie sheet. Bake at 180°C for ten mins.
Cool on wire rack.
When cooled, dip cookie into melted chocolate.
Place on waxed paper after dipping until cooled and chocolate is set.

This is a highly spiced molasses cookie that has it's roots in the revolutionary war era and has an These cookies take at least two days. You will make the cookies on one day and roll, cut and bake. As a kid, I didn't like molasses flavored cookies. I'd crinkle my little nose at gingerbread men and reach for a snickerdoodle instead. Soft and perfectly spiced, these cookies will soon become one of your favorite!