Recipe: Tasty SOFT GINGER MOLASSES COOKIES

SOFT GINGER MOLASSES COOKIES. These ginger molasses cookies are soft, salty, sweet, and spiced. Find this recipe in Sally's Cookie Addiction cookbook. My goal was to produce a flatter, chewier cookie with the same amount of softness. To accomplish this, I used the same ingredients but slightly altered the ratios LOVE this Ginger Molasses Cookies recipe! These ginger cookies are perfectly soft and chewy, spiced with lots of ginger, cinnamon and cloves, easy to make, and irresistibly delicious.

Gradually stir the sifted ingredients into the molasses mixture. Molasses cookies that are soft and chewy on the inside and crisp around the edges. Full of delicious ginger flavor and taste just like Christmas! You can have SOFT GINGER MOLASSES COOKIES using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of SOFT GINGER MOLASSES COOKIES

1. It's 3/4 cup of butter.
2. It's 1 cup of light brown sugar, packed.
3. It's 1 of egg.
4. You need 1/3 cup of molasses.
5. You need 2 1/4 cup of all purpose flour.
6. Prepare 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.

Drizzle or dip in white chocolate for the ultimate holiday cookie! If you're looking for the perfect Christmas cookie for your next cookie exchange or holiday. These soft ginger molasses cookies are truly "the best": featuring ginger, cloves, and cinnamon, a touch of molasses, and a delightfully chewy texture. Typically Alex and I love to make desserts that are on the lighter side, even if it involves adding non-traditional items like black beans.

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.

These dark, rich, soft-chewy molasses-ginger cookies are a classic. Dark, rich, and soft/chewy, these are everything you'd expect in an old-fashioned ginger-molasses cookie. For a slightly lighter cookie with milder, more "gingery" flavor, substitute ginger syrup (or see the recipe below) for some. The texture of these soft ginger molasses cookies is so perfect. I wish every cookie could be so dense, chewy and flavorful!