Molasses Sugar Cookies from Michelle. Molasses provides all the sweetness you need in these no-sugar-added cookies. If you want to omit the molasses entirely for its sugar content, you could. However, sugar in moderate amounts is a great.

After rolling the dough in the sugar and watching them bake through the little oven window, my sweet reward was biting into a warm cookie fresh from the oven. When storing these (and other cookies) store a piece of bread with them to keep them moist, otherwise they dry out like rocks! I also dipped all the cookies in powered sugar after they were cooled and it was not only pretty but delicious! You can have Molasses Sugar Cookies from Michelle using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Molasses Sugar Cookies from Michelle

1. It's 3/4 cup of shortening.
2. It's 1 cup of sugar.
3. You need 1/4 cup of molasses.
4. It's 1 of each egg.
5. It's 2 cup of ap flour.
6. Prepare 2 tsp of baking soda.
7. Prepare 1/4 tsp of ground cloves.
8. It's 1/2 tsp of ground ginger.
9. You need 1 tsp of cinnamon.
10. You need 1/2 tsp of salt.

Molasses cookies meet chewy sugar cookies to make one perfect dessert. While there's a lot more to the season than decorating (and eating) Christmas Sweet and chewy, these molasses sugar cookies are a Christmas must! The recipe for these old fashioned molasses cookies comes from a. There's nothing really fancy about these cookies, but they're my husband's all-time favorite.

Molasses Sugar Cookies from Michelle instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375.
2. Melt shortening in saucepan over low heat.  Remove from heat – let cool.
3. Add sugar, molasses and egg – beat well.
4. Sift together flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves and salt and add to molasses mixture. Mix well and chill for 1 hour or more.
5. Form into 1 inch balls and roll in granulated sugar. Place 2 inches apart on cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. (if you don’t want to use parchment paper, grease cookie sheet) Bake 8-10 minutes.

He enjoys their chewy, comforting flavor and the childhood memories they bring back. These chewy, crinkly, spiced sugar cookies are the perfect showcase for what molasses can do. Like brown sugar, molasses gives a firm chewiness to cookies and adds a rich, caramelized sweetness. I love all the warm spices, too—they are excellent for cold weather. Molasses Cookies are a year round favorite, but they are especially popular during the Holiday season.