Soft Molasses Spice Cookies

"The description in the Robin Hood Cookbook where this recipe came from was that in 1880 a young man would take his sweetheart to the restaurant and offer her the usual treat: spruce beer and molasses hands - so called because handfulls of cookie dough were put on sheets to bake."
 
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Ready In:
2hrs
Ingredients:
12
Yields:
54 cookies
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ingredients

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directions

  • Combine flour, soda, salt and spices in a bowl and mix well to blend.
  • Combine sugar, oil, molasses, milk and vanilla in a large bowl.
  • Mix thoroughly.
  • Add flour mixture gradually.
  • Mix well.
  • Chill 1 hour or until firm.
  • Roll out portions of dough on lightly floured surface to 1/4-inch thickness.
  • Cut with a floured 2 1/2" cookie cutter or your favourite shaped cookie cutters.
  • Place on greased cookie sheet.
  • Bake at 375° for 8-10 minutes.
  • When cool store in tightly covered metal container.
  • Prep time includes chilling time.

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Reviews

  1. I like that this made a nice, chewy cookie without shortening. The spices are great, and I might even add more another time. I like the less-sweet taste; rolled in sugar you taste sweet first, then spicy second. This recipe worked well for me using 1/2 whole wheat pastry flour. I used a smidge of blackstrap molasses (I long ago learned not to substitute the entire amount of molasses with blackstrap!!). Funny, when you need kids to help, they don't seem to mind rolling cookies and coating them in sugar! Just don't feed them baked cookies from the first batch until all cookies have been rolled! **Update** 8 days later, these cookies are still soft (from the cookie jar) and so incredible! The spice combo is perfect, as is the sweetness. Yes, 8 days is a long time for us to keep cookies in our jar, but we have to be self-controlled sometime!
     
  2. Original review Dec07: I hate to give a low review, but I really don't care for these all that much. I usually love molasses cookies, but these were too much spice and not enough sweet for me. The texture was excellent (I rolled them in small balls and then in granulated sugar rather than rolling and cutting out), and they were very easy to make. I just think less molasses and probably more sugar would have been more to my taste. They are definitely not bad, just didn't work out so well for me. Sorry! New: I gave these another chance, and I'm glad I did! Last time I had organic molasses, and this time I had regular processed, and it made all the difference in the world!
     
  3. I was craving something sweet the other night and realized I was out of eggs so I went searching. I'm so glad I found this recipe. These little cookies are the perfect combination of sweet, spicy and salty. I also made mine into balls and rolled in sugar and baked them for 12 minutes. I froze half the dough for a sweet snack mid-week. These are going in the favorites folder. Thank you Rinder!
     
  4. I LOVE these cookies! I picked this recipe because it was the only one that didn't call for shortening (which I didn't have) and it seemed to use less sugar than the others. I made it a little more healthy by subbing whole wheat flour for most of the white flour and by adding wheat germ. I doubled the ginger and also added extra cinammon. Like the other posters, I rolled them in white sugar instead of using cookie cutters. Yum yum, will make this again next time I want something sweet!
     
  5. Sweet, simple and good. What more do you need in a cookie. Like most reviewers I rolled and rolled mine in sugar. I'm not sure if it was the local weather today but I did need a use a bit more flour than called for (maybe sightly less than 1/2 cup total). Next time I make this I will up the ginger, I like mine to be a little spicier. Over all a wonderful cookie. Thanks!
     
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I live in St. Albert,Alberta moved here from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia in Dec.2001 as my significant other George is in the Air Force here. My two daughters and four grandchildren are back home in N.S. so I miss home very much,if there are any other Nova Scotians out there,I would love to hear from you. For fun I love Garage Sales,Flea Markets,collecting dishes,shopping,going out to a nice restaurant for dinner. Don't have a favorite cookbook,just love looking @ all recipes & finding ones that sound good enough to try. Love animals,we have two cats. If I had a month off I would go visit my family and would love to go to Europe,so I guess a month wouldn't be enough unless I could take my family to Europe with me. Guess I'll just have to win the lottery!!!
 
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