Sugar and Spice Cookies

Submitted by KCShell

" The secret is to roll these in powdered sugar after baking, when cool. They are chewy and perfect!"

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 48 cookies

ingredients

• 3⁄4 cup shortening
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1⁄4 cup molasses
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 3⁄4 teaspoon clove
• 3⁄4 teaspoon ginger
• 1 3⁄4 cups flour

directions

1. Mix together shortening, sugar, egg and molasses. I use an electric hand mixer to get the shortening smooth and to incorporate the egg into the other ingredients.
2. Sift together soda, salt, spices and flour.
3. Mix shortening mixture and flour mixture together.
4. Chill 2 hours or more.
5. Using 1 1/2 tablespoons of dough, make into balls.
6. Place onto ungreased cookie sheet about 2- inches apart.
7. Cookie will flatten and spread out.
8. Bake at 375° for 10 minutes.
9. Place on cookie rack to cool.
10. When cool, roll into powdered sugar.

Reviews

[Sandy in Oklahoma]

I made spice cookies for my children while they were growing up. I lost the recipe in a flood and have been searching for one similar for about 10 years. I added 1 tsp of vanilla to your recipe and it tastes exactly like my old recipe. My now grown children have been asking me to make spice cookies for Christmas so you've made us all very happy! This is a delicious cookie. Thanks for posting it.

 

[LUVMY2BOYS]

These are really delicious. I tried rolling them in Splenda sugar before baking to see how they'd turn out & the only difference is that the color of the cookie is a light brown instead of dark brown. Either way they taste as good as promised. Can't wait for the holidays to spread them around! Thanks for the recipe

 

[sm2be]

Wonderful! Can't wait till the holidays to make batches and batches of these!