While I was putting away our Thanksgiving dishes my daughter was baking in the kitchen and filling the house with Christmas scent. Oh, I wish you could have smelled it, too. Cinnamon, gloves and ginger combined in a soft and chewy cookie. She decided to bake molasses cookies. This is our first Christmas cookie of the season. It tasted to me like a mixture of Lebkuchen and Magenbrot. Absolutely delicious.
Enjoy also your 1st Advent Sunday afternoon with some home baked molasses cookies and a nice cup of tea. Finally, Christmas season has arrived!
| 1st Sunday of Advent - Christmas Baking - Molasses Cookies | Print |
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Serves: 20 -24 cookies
Ingredients
- ¾ cup ( 170 g) butter, melted
- 1 cup (200 g) sugar
- 1 large egg
- ¼ cup (60 ml) molasses
- 2 cups (250 g) flour
- 2 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon cloves
- ½ teaspoon ginger
- ½ cup sugar, to roll the cookies in
Instructions
- Mix the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger and cloves. Set aside.
- In a stand mixer set on medium speed mix together the butter, sugar and egg until smooth. Add the molasses and combine well. Set kitchen machine on low and add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients until just combined. Don't over mix.
- Cover and chill the dough in the fridge for about an hour.
- Preheat oven to Convection 375 F. Line two baking sheets with silicon pads or baking paper.
- Roll the dough with your hands into walnut sized balls. Roll the balls in sugar and place them on the prepared baking sheets about 2 inches apart. Bake for 8 - 10 minutes. Cool on wired racks.
Adapted from allrecipes.com.
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@anonymous: Yes, all recipes are adjusted to work at our altitude. Happy baking!
Are these "high altitude" directions already? I live in Denver….thanks 🙂
Sounds DELISH! I can't wait to try 🙂 I love Mollasses crinkles.
Kirsten we posted the same cookie today! Our recipes look just about identical—ours is a family favorite every year!
For some reason I'm in the mood to bake Christmas cookies this year. I have a few ear marked in some of my mom's old cookbooks and a molasses ginger type cookie is one of them. Great photo as always Kirsten.
Oh, such a wonderful cookie to start the season. I just sent some to my grand and his dad in Spain. Can't wait to get back home and start baking again. XoxO
Cute miniature Christmas tree figures on your cookies. I will have to cut out a Tinkerbell pattern because my daughter will surely want that on her cookies. Thanks for sharing!
Can't remember if I saw these on TS, FG, or Tasteologie..I have been all over the place today 🙂
But…YUM!! I love molasses cookies!
My Favorite cookie! Well, I love molasses taffy, molasses on my biscuit, and molasses lemonade.
I hope you and your family had a nice Thanksgiving.
What a brillian idea to have an image of the christmas tree on the cookies. I love it.
I love how you dusted around the little Christmas tree on top. I bet the house smelled awesome. there is nothing like a good batch of cookies in the oven.
The molasses with spices would be a great combination!
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