Just a couple more days until Christmas! Where has this year gone? I had to get one good cookie baking in before it was all over. I made my favorite batch over the weekend. These Chewy Molasses-Spice Cookies are the best! I’ve been making them for 6 or 7 years and just adore them. I love wrapping them up in a cute box and handing them out to co-workers and giving them as host/hostess gifts. They’re really easy to make, but you do need to bake one batch at a time so the cookies crackle properly. But you know what, while you’re waiting each batch to bake up, you can finish up that last-minute wrapping! That’s exactly what I did. I doubled the recipe cause I have a lot of sharing to do 🙂 Let’s dig in!
Whisk together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt together in a bowl. You could use a sifter as well, but I have a small kitchen and that is a unitasker that I just don’t have room for. Whisking works just as well or me. My grandmother is shaking her fist at me somewhere 😉
Beat butter in sugar with your stand mixer or an electric mixer.
Next, add in the egg and molasses. I love the pretty ribbons it makes!
Slowly add in the dry ingredients and mix until it all comes together.
Take a 1 tablespoon scoop.
Oh wait, I forgot to tell you. Get a smaller bowl and pour in some sugar. Now take your cookie dough ball and roll it around in said sugar until coated.
Place the balls on a cookie sheet…
and bake for 10-15 minutes, just until the edges are firm.
Place them on a wire rack to cool completely.
Wrap them up and give as gifts! Or you could use my personal wrapping approach…one for you one for me 🙂
Happy Holidays to you all!
Here’s the handy printable.
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1½ teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1½ cups sugar
- ¾ cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 large egg
- ¼ cup molasses
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Whisk together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt in a medium bowl. In a smaller bowl, pour ½ cup sugar; set aside.
- Beat butter and remaining cup of sugar until combined. Add in the egg and molasses and beat until combined. Slowly add in dry ingredients, just until a dough forms.
- Use a small ice cream scoop and scoop up about 1 Tablespoon of cookie dough. Roll into a ball and roll balls in bowl of sugar to coat.
- Arrange balls on baking sheets, about 3 inches apart. Bake, one sheet at a time, until edges of cookies are just firm, 10 to 15 minutes (cookies can be baked two sheets at a time, but they will not crackle uniformly). Cool 1 minute on baking sheets; transfer to racks to cool completely.
I love everything from cake to kale. Life is all about balance. I like to live, laugh and love to the fullest! Our time is too short not to enjoy ourselves.
It was extremely hard to tear my eyes away from that first photo.l Just look at those cookies. mazing
Thank you so much 🙂
Love molasses spice cookies. They look just perfect Sarah!
Thank you! I love them too 🙂
I love the molasses ginger cookies. Yours look perfect! I can imagine how wonderful your home must smell when baking these adding to the festive atmosphere!
Merry Christmas to you
Thanks Sandhya! My house did smell absolutely wonderful after baking them all 🙂 Merry Christmas!
This year I’ve made lots of gingerbread cookies based on molasses also, and they tasted so good and delicious, that I will be making them definitely again! 🙂
Have a wonderful winter holidays!
Those sound delicious. Happy Holidays Mila!