Steps to Make Perfect Molasses Cookies

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, molasses cookies. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Molasses Cookies is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Molasses Cookies is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have molasses cookies using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Molasses Cookies:

1. Prepare Dry Ingredients
2. Get 2 cup Flour
3. Get 2 tsp Baking Soda
4. Prepare 2 tsp Cinnamon
5. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp Ground Ginger
6. Prepare 1 tsp Ground Cloves
7. Prepare 1 tsp Salt
8. Prepare Wet Ingredients
9. Get 1/2 cup Shortening
10. Get 1/4 cup Butter, at room tempetature
11. Prepare 1 cup Brown Sugar, packed
12. Make ready 1 Egg
13. Make ready 1/4 cup Dark Molasses
14. Make ready Topping
15. Get 4 cup Ice Water
16. Make ready 1 cup Sugar

Steps to make Molasses Cookies:

1. Preheat oven to 350°f
2. Sift flour into medium sized bowl. Add the baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and salt. Mix thoroughly.
3. In a large bowl, add the shortening, butter and brown sugar. Beat until fluffy.
4. Add the egg and dark molasses to the wet ingredients and mix just until combined.
5. Mix the dry ingredients into the wet mixture.
6. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.
7. After 1 hour, remove dough from fridge. Put ice water into a small bowl. Put sugar on dinner plate.
8. Roll dough into balls (about golf ball size) and then quickly dip into the ice water, then roll the ball in the sugar. Place dough balls onto greased cookie sheet.
9. Bake in preheated oven for 10 to 20 minutes (until cookies are cracked on top, golden and soft).
10. Let cookies rest for 5 minutes on cookie sheet, then move them to wire rack to cool.
11. Enjoy warm with a tall glass of milk!

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