Recipe: Perfect SOFT GINGER MOLASSES COOKIES

SOFT GINGER MOLASSES COOKIES. LOVE this Ginger Molasses Cookies recipe! These ginger cookies are perfectly soft and chewy, spiced with lots of ginger, cinnamon and cloves, easy to make, and irresistibly delicious. These ginger molasses cookies are soft, salty, sweet, and spiced. Find this recipe in Sally's Cookie Addiction cookbook. My goal was to produce a flatter, chewier cookie with the same amount of softness.

To accomplish this, I used the same ingredients but slightly altered the ratios Big Soft Ginger Cookies. Gradually stir the sifted ingredients into the molasses mixture. These dark, rich, soft-chewy molasses-ginger cookies are a classic. You can cook SOFT GINGER MOLASSES COOKIES using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of SOFT GINGER MOLASSES COOKIES

1. You need 3/4 cup of butter.
2. It's 1 cup of light brown sugar, packed.
3. It's 1 of egg.
4. You need 1/3 cup of molasses.
5. You need 2 1/4 cup of all purpose flour.
6. Prepare 2 tsp of baking soda.
7. It's 1 tsp of cinnamon.
8. It's 1 tsp of ginger.
9. It's 1 tsp of ground cloves.
10. It's 1 of granulated white sugar on a saucer for rolling cookies in.

Dark, rich, and soft/chewy, these are everything you'd expect in an old-fashioned ginger-molasses cookie. For a slightly lighter cookie with milder, more "gingery" flavor, substitute ginger syrup (or see the recipe below) for some. The texture of these soft ginger molasses cookies is so perfect. I wish every cookie could be so dense, chewy and flavorful!

SOFT GINGER MOLASSES COOKIES instructions

1. Preheat oven 375°F.
2. in small bowl stir together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves together.
3. in a medium bowl, cream butter, brown sugar and egg until light and fluffy.
4. add flour mixture to butter mixture, mix well.
5. roll dough into small balls, roll in granulated sugar.
6. lightly flatten on an ungreased cookie sheet.
7. bake 9 minutes, cookies will be very soft to the touch...let cool on cookie sheet 10 minutes before moving to a plate.
8. do not over bake or cookies will be hard.

It's really difficult to eat just These aren't your average ginger molasses cookies—they are way better. When I smell these soft ginger molasses cookies baking in the oven. Molasses cookies that are soft and chewy on the inside and crisp around the edges. Full of delicious ginger flavor and taste just like Christmas! Drizzle or dip in white chocolate for the ultimate holiday cookie!