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Ginger Molasses Cookies

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
This molasses cookie recipe has the best balance of flavors, making this chewy cookie your new favorite dessert!

Ingredients

  • ½ cup butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • ¼ cup molasses
  • 1 egg
  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • pinch of salt
  • ½ Tbs cinnamon
  • ½ tsp ground cloves
  • 1 Tbs ground ginger

Instructions 

  •  Preheat ovento 325 degrees, line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
  •  In mediumbowl, cream the butter, with 1 cup of sugar. Add the molasses and egg and beatwell.
  • In small bowlstir together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger. Addthe flour mixture to the creamed mixture and stir to combine well.
  •  Using ¼ cupmeasuring scoop, shape dough into 12 balls. Roll in a ¼ cup sugar andplace on baking sheet. Place one sheet at a time and bake for 18- 20 min. Coo if you are making smaller cookies, using a Tbs cookie scoop bake for 8-9 minutes. The cookies will lookslightly underbaked, but they are done. Remove cookies and move to a wire rackto cool

Notes

The key to chewy cookies is they will look slightly underbaked, but once they are out of the oven, the dough will set up!
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cookie, molasses