Ginger Molasses Cookies
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!
