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Molasses Cookies are a year round favorite, but they are especially popular during the Holiday season. The molasses cookie recipe you need to bookmark for every holiday season. These things are perfectly chewy for days and days. You can cook Molasses Cookies using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Molasses Cookies

It's of Dry Ingredients.
You need 2 cup of Flour.
You need 2 tsp of Baking Soda.
Prepare 2 tsp of Cinnamon.
It's 1 1/2 tsp of Ground Ginger.
It's 1 tsp of Ground Cloves.
You need 1 tsp of Salt.
It's of Wet Ingredients.
You need 1/2 cup of Shortening.
It's 1/4 cup of Butter, at room tempetature.
Prepare 1 cup of Brown Sugar, packed.
Prepare 1 of Egg.
Prepare 1/4 cup of Dark Molasses.
It's of Topping.
Prepare 4 cup of Ice Water.
You need 1 cup of Sugar.

These Molasses Cookies have the perfect old fashioned flavor and chewy bite, and are great for With ginger, allspices, and cloves supporting the dark, rich flavor of molasses, the cookies simply. Molasses cookies that are soft and chewy on the inside and crisp around the edges. Another thing that's great about these molasses cookies is that they are really quick to make. Molasses Cookies: In a large bowl sift or whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, and spices.

Molasses Cookies instructions

Preheat oven to 350°f.
Sift flour into medium sized bowl. Add the baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and salt. Mix thoroughly..
In a large bowl, add the shortening, butter and brown sugar. Beat until fluffy..
Add the egg and dark molasses to the wet ingredients and mix just until combined..
Mix the dry ingredients into the wet mixture..
Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour..
After 1 hour, remove dough from fridge. Put ice water into a small bowl. Put sugar on dinner plate..
Roll dough into balls (about golf ball size) and then quickly dip into the ice water, then roll the ball in the sugar. Place dough balls onto greased cookie sheet..
Bake in preheated oven for 10 to 20 minutes (until cookies are cracked on top, golden and soft)..
Let cookies rest for 5 minutes on cookie sheet, then move them to wire rack to cool..
Enjoy warm with a tall glass of milk!.

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