Recipe: Molasses spice cookies
Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook time: 13 minutes per batch
Makes 18 large cookies
Kathryn Pierce of Sacramento misses the dark molasses spice cookies she used to get at the now-closed Cookie Creations shop. They were chewy and contained no oats. She was hoping for their recipe or one similar.
We haven’t received the Cookie Creations recipe, but we are featuring two recipes today that may come close. This one comes from Cook’s Illustrated’s “The Best Recipe” Cookbook.
INGREDIENTS
2¼ cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
3/4 teaspoon ground cloves
3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup dark brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup granulated sugar, plus 1/3 cup for rolling cookies
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup unsulfured molasses
INSTRUCTIONS
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, allspice, cloves. Set aside.
Using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat butter for 2 minutes. Add brown sugar and 1/2 cup granulated sugar; beat until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add egg, vanilla and molasses. Beat until combined, about 30 seconds.
Scrape down sides of bowl with rubber spatula.
Add dry ingredients and beat at low speed until just combined, about 30 seconds.
Place remaining 1/3 cup granulated sugar in a shallow bowl. Working with 2 tablespoons of dough each time, roll dough into 1¾-inch balls. Roll balls in sugar and place on ungreased cookie sheets, spacing them 1½ to 2 inches apart. Bake until the outer edges begin to set and centers are soft and puffy, about 11 to 13 minutes. Cool cookies on sheets for 2 to 3 minutes before transferring them to cooling racks. Do not overbake, the centers of the cookies should be somewhat soft and spongy when you take them from the oven, otherwise they will end up hard and dry.
Per cookie: 202 cal.; 2 g pro.; 31 g carb.; 8 g fat (5 sat., 3 monounsat., 0 polyunsat.); 33 mg chol.; 214 mg sod.; 0 g fiber; 18 g sugar; 36 percent calories from fat.