Chewy Molasses Cookies
Fragrant and full of flavor chewy molasses cookies.
Equipment
- 2 cookie sheets
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup butter, melted, unsalted
- 1 cup brown sugar, light
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon, ground
- 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1/2 cup white sugar for rolling dough
Instructions
- Beat the egg. Add brown sugar and melted butter to beaten egg.
- Stir in molasses.
- Mix flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, ginger and salt.
- Combine with molasses mixture.
- Cover and chill for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Roll chilled dough into balls and then into white sugar. Don't skip this step as it gives a nice sheen and balance to the cookies.
- Bake for 8 - 10 minutes on an ungreased cookie sheet until tops are cracked. The cookies may look uncooked at 10 minutes but they will finish cooking as they cool.