Cry Baby Molasses Cookies

Submitted by MinnMomof2

"Again another one of my Grandma Clark's recipes our family LOVES. It is at almost every family gathering. I have used 'store bought' icing before and it works OK but I prefer to make my own powdered sugar icing. This is a LARGE recipe and my servings are a guess as my family eats the cookies before I can count. I often half this recipe to make a more manageable number of cookies."

 

• Ready In: 18mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Yields: 3 doze
• Serves: 36

ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup lard or 1 cup shortening
• 1⁄2 cup molasses
• 1 cup hot water
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ginger
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 4 cups flour

• icing

• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 -2 tablespoon milk

directions

1. Mix all ingredients together.
2. Drop from a spoon onto pan.
3. Bake at 350 F until lightly browned at edges (I believe 8-10 minutes but WATCH).
4. Remove to wire cooling rack (if needed let sit on pan 1-2 minutes).
5. Ice while hot/warm with powdered sugar icing.

Reviews

[jesshopkins15]

These cookies turned out awesome. I followed directions except I only used 1 cup powdered sugar and 2 tbsp milk for the icing and it was the perfect amount.