Molasses Cookies. When storing these (and other cookies) store a piece of bread with them to keep them moist, otherwise they dry out like rocks! These seriously soft molasses cookies are the most tender and chewy gingersnap cookies around! The molasses cookie recipe you need to bookmark for every holiday season.

The Incredible Hulk of molasses cookies. This recipe for these cookies is barely adapted from Cook's Illustrated's Best Recipe Cookbook, and is. LOVE this Ginger Molasses Cookies recipe! You can cook Molasses Cookies using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Molasses Cookies

Prepare 1 cup of shortning.
Prepare 2 cup of sugar.
You need 1/4 cup of molasses.
It's 2 of eggs.
It's 1 tbsp of Vanilla.
It's 1 tsp of Vanilla.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of Ginger.
You need 1 tsp of cinnamoon.
Prepare 1 tsp of cloves.
Prepare 1/4 tsp of Salt.

These ginger cookies are perfectly soft and chewy, spiced with lots of ginger, cinnamon and cloves, easy to make, and irresistibly delicious. My family always requests these soft molasses cookies. These chewy molasses cookies are also. Molasses Cookies are a year round favorite, but they are especially popular during the Holiday season.

Molasses Cookies step by step

Preheat oven to 350°F..
Cream all ingredients..
Add 4 1/2 cups flour and 3 t. soda dissolved in 1/4 cup hot water.
Roll into small balls (no bigger than a walnut) and roll in sugar..
Flatten on a greased cookie sheet with a sugar coated cookie press or whatever works..
Bake about 7 minutes for a soft cookie..

Christmas is such a fun time of year, and I absolutely love baking treats for family and friends. Before baking the molasses cookies, you can roll the dough balls in granulated sugar. Best Ever Molasses Cookies have a slightly crisp sugar coated edge and a soft and chewy center. These are the perfect holiday cookie! Soft molasses cookies are the perfect choice to fill a cookie jar, a school lunchbox or a holiday cookie tray.