My Favorite Molasses Cookies Recipe

How can these be crispy and chewy at the same time??

My Favorite Molasses Cookies Recipe:
Makes 4 dozen+ 2.5" diameter cookies

Ingredients:

1 1/2 c. shortening
2 c. sugar
2 eggs
1/2 c. dark molasses


Place the above ingredients into your mixer bowl and mix thoroughly on medium.

Into a separate bowl, measure the following ingredients:
4 c. all-purpose flour
4 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt
2 t. cinnamon
1 1/2 t. ground cloves
1 1/2 t. ginger

As your mixer is running, pour the dry ingredients slowly into the mixing bowl, mixing thoroughly with the shortening, sugar, eggs, and molasses.

Form dough into 1 1/8 inch balls. I use heavy jellyroll pans to bake cookies. Use a good cooking spray to spray the pans, then arrange cookies on pans, about a dozen to a jellyroll pan. Don't crowd the cookie dough balls or you'll end up with one gigantic pan cookie.


Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven on middle shelf.  This should take 10-12 minutes. I take mine out at exactly 11 minutes and then let the cookies finish setting up as they cool on the pans. You do not want the cookies to be brown (like overdone brown) when you take them out, but you also don't want them to look wet. This may take some experimentation with  your oven.


When I first take the cookies out of the oven, I smack the pan on the top of the stove to encourage all the cookies to lie flat. They just seem to need that little jolt so they don't stay puffy in the center. No, I'm not going to make a video of this, but thought I'd tell you on the odd chance that someone would understand what on earth I'm talking about.



Although these are delicious just as they are, next time I'm going to increase the amount of ginger, clove, and cinnamon - just a tad.


You'll have a hard time keeping these around. AND, they're also good right out of the freezer, just in case you feel a need to try to hide them.

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