Molasses Ginger Cookies: 14 Years In The Making (No Chill)

Molasses Ginger Cookies - 14 Years In The Making (No Chill)

Molasses Ginger Cookies

If you only knew how many ginger and molasses cookie recipes I have baked in my 34 years.  Let me explain... These are my other half's very favorite cookie.  Since we started dating, oh back in 2006, I have made him molasses cookies for his yearly, 10 day deer hunting excursion, every fall.

I started with baking my mom's molasses cookie recipe that we would sometimes make for Christmas cookies.  Well year 1, I somehow mixed up something in the recipe and made these flat and so spread out, but yet lovely soft cookies.  You almost couldn't get them off of the pan, but he and his father LOVED these cookies.  Being I didn't know what I accidentally changed in the recipe (or maybe the temperatures?), I have been trying to make "those" cookies ever since.  You know THOSE exact cookies!  You probably are thinking you have a great recipe and I'm thinking I have made and tried it, I swear.

So years go by and more and more recipes I try.  I have a few favorite "ginger" cookie recipes and a few "molasses" cookie recipes.  But to him, these do not compare.  With saying that, I really liked THIS recipe.  And by now (14 years later) we HAVE to be some sort of molasses ginger bread whatever you want to call it mixed into a cookie dough connoisseur, right?!  Well I will secretly take the trophy due to all of my efforts of trying to replicate this mishap recipe.  Side note:  Oh this is not the first time this has happened either.  There also is an apple crisp AND a pickled green beans recipe I have yet to figure out how in the world to repeat.  Yep, THREE recipes.

Well that brings us here with this recipe.  These cookies are thin and chewy.  They have that crunchy outside shell from rolling them in the sugar before baking.  They are moist inside and have all of those spice flavors you are looking for along with the molasses.  Young and old would enjoy this recipe.  I always feel as though molasses cookies have some sort of old history baked right into the cookie and just makes me think of how old and how many hands this recipe has probably been made by.  There is something about molasses cookies where I believe I am making a historical recipe.  I'm attached, can you tell?

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups butter, softened (3 sticks) *if you use salted, reduce salt by half.
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup molasses
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 4 1/2 cups flour
• 4 tsp baking soda
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground cloves
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• white sugar for rolling dough in

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1. Cream together butter and sugar with electric hand mixer or stand mixer.  Add all wet ingredients.  Mix again until fluffy.
   
2. In a separate bowl, add all dry ingredients.  Whisk all together.
   
3. Add dry ingredients into wet ingredients and mix.
   
4. Shape dough into 1 inch balls and roll into additional white sugar (or red or green for the holidays).  I use my cookie scoop!
   
5. Bake at 350 on an ungreased cookie sheet for 8-10 mins.  I use parchment paper for easy clean up!
   
6. Place cookies on cooling rack immediately.  Click here to find out what my very favorite kitchen tool is!  Lets just say its amazing for baking cookies.

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