Molasses Cookies

Delicious, soft and chewy Molasses Cookies that are rolled in sugar, baked. Dress them up with a drizzle of white chocolate for the perfect finishing touch if you’d like!

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Your treat platter for the holidays won’t be complete with these traditional Christmas Cookies. They are a family favorite and they freeze great for making ahead of the holidays!

These Molasses Cookies are my favorite! They are the perfectly crisp outside, chewy center with tons of spice.

The best thing about these Molasses cookies is that they freeze great. I love making a few cookies every weekend and freezing them before Christmas so things don’t see quit as overwhelming when Christmas comes.

Then I just pull a few out of the freezer at a time and arrange them on a platter for a festive cookie tray that is stress-free!

I decorated mine with a little white chocolate drizzle which I think dresses them up again, but if you don’t want the white chocolate on them they are delicious without it too.

Ingredients Needed

• Butter – Room temperature, not melted or it will not cream properly with the sugar.
• Sugar – Brown sugar for the dough and white sugar for rolling the dough balls in.
• Eggs – Room temperature is the best so it combines in the dough properly.
• Vanilla
• Molasses – Go for the dark molasses to give these a rich taste. Light molasses isn’t flavorful enough and blackstrap molasses will be bitter.
• Flour – All-purpose flour that’s already in your pantry.
• Soda – To make them rise
• Salt – Brings out the flavor in the cookies
• Spices – A mixture of ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon
• White chocolate – If you’d like to drizzle them in white chocolate at the end to dress them up. Completely optional.

Mix the Dough

• Wet Ingredients – Beat butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla and molasses in a large mixing bowl
• Dry Ingredients – In another bowl combine the flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg.
• Mix – Slowly beat into the wet mixture until combined.
• Chill – Chill dough for 1 hour and up to 24 hours.

Bake Cookies

• Preheat Oven – Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Make Dough Balls – When dough is chilled, remove from refrigerator and roll dough into small balls, about 1” each, and roll in sugar.
• Bake – Place dough baking sheets lined with parchment paper and baked at 350 degrees F. for about 10 minutes. You want to bake them just until the tops start to crack.
• Cool – Remove from oven and let cool for 2 minutes on baking sheet. Then remove them from baking sheet to wire rack and let cool completely.
• Drizzle – After they are cooled you can drizzle them with white chocolate if desired. Place white chocolate in a microwave safe bowl, heat according to directions on package and drizzle cookies.

What do molasses cookies taste like?

Deep and rich in flavor these are slightly sweet. Light molasses is sweeter, dark molasses more full-bodied and rich. Choose your favorite!

Are gingerbread cookies and molasses cookies the same?

Although both cookies use molasses, the difference between gingerbread and molasses cookies is that molasses cookies are chewier. Ginger molasses cookies that are crispier in texture. Both are delicious!

Storage Tips

These cookies will stay fresh and delicious up to 4 days at room temperature.

If you want them to last longer than that just pop them in the freezer! They will keep in an airtight container in the freezer for up to 3 months.

More Christmas Cookies!

• It’s not the holidays without a dropped Soft Sugar Cookie! Top it with our favorite Sugar Cookie Frosting for the perfect combination.
• This easy no-bake Peanut Butter Ritz Cookie is a staple at our house.
• If you love chocolate + peanut butter these Peanut Butter Cup Cookies are a must make.
• Snickerdoodles are soft and chewy cinnamon-spiced cookies that are perfect for the holidays!

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Molasses Cookies

A traditional Christmas Cookie that everyone needs to make! Soft, chewy, rolled in sugar, and baked. The option to top them with a drizzle of white chocolate to dress them up.

Prep:10 minutes mins

Cook:10 minutes mins

Total:20 minutes mins

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Ingredients

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• ▢ 1 c. butter room temperature
• ▢ 2 c. brown sugar
• ▢ 2 eggs room temperature
• ▢ 2 tsp vanilla
• ▢ 1/2 c. molasses
• ▢ 4 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
• ▢ 4 tsp baking soda
• ▢ 1 tsp salt
• ▢ 1 Tbsp ginger
• ▢ 2 tsp cinnamon
• ▢ 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• ▢ 1/2 c. white sugar for rolling

Instructions

• Beat butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla and molasses. In another bowl combine the flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg. Slowly beat into the wet mixture until combined.
• Chill dough for 1 hour and up to 24 hours.
• When dough is chilled, remove from refrigerator and roll dough into small balls, about 1'' each, and roll in sugar.
• Place dough baking sheets lined with parchment paper and baked at 350 degrees F. for about 10 minutes. You want to bake them just until the tops start to crack. Remove from oven and let cool for 2 minutes on baking sheet. Then remove them from baking sheet to wire rack and let cool completely.
• After they are cooled you can drizzle them with white chocolate if desired. Place white chocolate in a microwave safe bowl, heat according to directions on package and drizzle cookies.

Tips

Storage Tips

These cookies will stay fresh and delicious up to 4 days at room temperature.

If you want them to last longer than that just pop them in the freezer! They will keep in an airtight container in the freezer for up to 3 months.

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Nutrition Information

Serving: 1, Calories: 174kcal (9%), Carbohydrates: 31g (10%), Protein: 3g (6%), Fat: 4g (6%), Saturated Fat: 3g (19%), Cholesterol: 17mg (6%), Sodium: 195mg (8%), Potassium: 77mg (2%), Fiber: 1g (4%), Sugar: 14g (16%), Vitamin A: 133IU (3%), Calcium: 20mg (2%), Iron: 1mg (6%)

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