Molasses Cookies

Old Fashioned Soft Molasses Cookies recipe

https://thesaltymarshmallow.com/old-fashioned-soft-molasses-cookies/

Now that the holidays are over, we have finished the cookies, and we're ready for more.  This recipe for molasses cookies looked interesting, and it turned out to be delicious. 

I like to make smallish cookies.

This dish is 6.25 inches in diameter.

Of course, since I can never follow a recipe:
→  I forgot that it said brown sugar and used white. . . 
→  Used two tablespoons of cinnamon
→  Used one tablespoon of ginger.


This recipe is a keeper.

Ingredients

1 Cup Packed Brown Sugar
1 Cup Butter, Softened

1/4 Cup Dark Molasses

1 Large Egg

1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract

2 1/2 Cups All Purpose Flour

2 Teaspoons Baking Soda
1 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
1 Teaspoon Ground Ginger
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1/4 Cup Granulated Sugar, For Rolling  (used Demerara Sugar - needed more like 1/2 cup)

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Prepare a large baking sheet with parchment paper or non stick cooking spray, set aside.
• In a large bowl using a hand mixer, or in the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment beat together the brown sugar, butter, molasses, egg, and vanilla until well combined.
• Mix in the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, and salt.
• Shape the dough by rounded tablespoon fulls into 1 1/2 inch balls. Dip the cookies into the granulated sugar and place 2 inches apart on the prepared baking sheet.
• Bake in preheated oven for 13-15 minutes just until set. Remove cookies to a wire rack to cool immediately.

Thirteen minutes was plenty of time in my oven.

Next time, I may add grated fresh  and or minced candied ginger.