Our family falls into spicy-cookie and vanilla-cookie teams, and this is the Spicy team's all time favorite. We make them all year round, but especially love dressing them up for the holidays. For readers who've been with us from the beginning, you may recognize them from Knitcircus #4.
Molasses Crinkles
Makes approximately 30 cookies
20 min to prep and roll, 12-14 min to bake
Ingredients:
1/2 cup (one stick) butter, melted
1/4 blackstrap molasses
1 C sugar
1 egg
1/4 t salt
2t baking soda
1 t cinnamon
1 t allspice
1 t powdered ginger
2 C flour (for holidays, we use unbleached all-purpose, for the rest of the year, half white and half whole wheat pastry flour)
2-3 T additional sugar, for rolling; or use 1 T sugar and 2 t sanding sugar for each color desired
To make:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease cookie sheets or use parchment paper.
Melt butter and put in medium mixing bowl. Beat in molasses and sugar. Beat in egg.
Add dry ingredients to mixture and stir well.
Roll cookies into 1.5" balls. Put sugar in small bowl (or two if using two colors sanding sugar) Roll each ball in extra sugar and place on cookie sheet.
Bake for approximately 11-12 minutes for chewy-in-the-middle cookies, or 14 min for crunchy cookies.
Is the blackstrap molasses 1/4 cup or something else? I want to try these out
Posted by: Rachelle | December 13, 2011 at 12:19 PM
yummy
Posted by: Brandi | December 15, 2011 at 07:24 PM
Your yummy recipes are keeping me fluffy! ;=]
Posted by: Elizabeth | December 17, 2011 at 05:27 PM
I'm trying your sugar cookie recipe tomorrow! ( : These look great, too!
Posted by: stephanie gordon | December 18, 2011 at 06:52 PM
My family uses this recipe, too! Gonna go make some!
Posted by: Anne | December 21, 2011 at 08:13 AM