How to Make Molasses Cookies - Easy Soft Molasses Cookies Recipe
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In this episode of In the Kitchen with Matt, I will show you how to make Molasses Cookies. This recipe for soft molasses cookies is super easy to make, if I can do it you can do it. It is one of my sister's favorite cookies to make, she recently made them for me for Christmas, and I decided to show you all how to make them. For those of you who are not familiar with these cookies, they taste like a cross between a gingerbread cookie and a soft sugar cookie. Let's get baking!
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Ingredients:
1 cup of white granulated sugar
3/4 cup of shortening
1/4 cup of molasses
1 large egg
2 cups of flour
2 tsp. of baking soda
1 tsp. of cinnamon
1/2 tsp. of ground cloves
1/2 tsp. of ginger
1/2 tsp. of salt
Bake at 375 degrees F for 8 minutes. Use an un-greased cookie sheet, or silicone baking mat or parchment paper
Transcript:
Hello and welcome back to In the Kitchen with Matt, I am your host Matt Taylor, Happy New Year everybody. Today I am going to teach you how to make Molasses Cookies, mmm yummy; they are really easy to make, one of my sisters, favorite recipes, she made some for me for the holidays, they were super yummy, thought I would show you how to make them, really easy to do, if I can do it, you can do it. Let’s get started. First let’s sift together our dry ingredients. I am going to add 2 cups of flour here, and it is okay if it goes over the sides here, probably need a bigger sifter, one half teaspoon of salt, 1 tsp. of ground cinnamon, 2 tsp. of baking soda, one half tsp. of ground cloves, one half tsp. of ground ginger. All right and we just sift away here, and now what we want to do is we want to cream together, 3 fourths cup of shortening, one fourth cup of molasses, the star of the show, you will want to probably use a spatula to get it all out, and one cup of sugar. Let’s cream that together. Okay, then I am going to scrape the sides. And now I will add one egg, mix. Scrape the sides one more time. Then we just mix in our flour, and I am going to mix it in, about a third of it at a time. And then I will scrape the sides one last time. All right and now we clean off the beaters, and then what I am going to do is I am going to take the dough and just ball it all together. And then what we want to do is cover this with plastic wrap or a lid, and then chill this in the refrigerator, for at least two hours, on to that step. All right once you have them rolled out, this goes into an oven that has been preheated to 375 degrees F. And then we will bake them for 7 to 8 minutes. When they come out of the oven they will look like this, we will go ahead and let them cool for about 5 minutes, before we transfer them over to a wire rack to cool the rest of the way. All right our molasses cookies are done, they turned out amazing, you may not be familiar with this type of cookie, but go out there and try them, they are really easy to make, really yummy, I think you are really going to like them. I am Matt Taylor; this has been another episode of In the Kitchen with Matt, thank you for joining me, as always if you have any questions or comments, put them down below and I will get back to you as soon as I can, thumbs up, down in the corner push it, Don’t forget to subscribe to my channel, take care. Time for me to dive into one of these, oh yeah, mmm mmm mmm, grab this guy right here.
Soft Ginger Molasses Cookies
Soft Ginger Molasses Cookies
Fall is upon on us and what better way to celebrate than with some fresh, soft ginger molasses cookies. These cookies smell so good and they taste like the holidays. I am a huge fan of molasses cookies and these hit the spot perfectly.
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Makes about 30 cookies
2/3 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup +2 tbsp molasses
1 whole egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp ginger
2 cups all-purpose flour
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 Fahrenheit (176 celsius).
In a large bowl, cream together sugar and butter.
Next, add vanilla extract, egg, molasses and mix.
In a medium bowl add flour, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and baking soda.
Combine dry mixture into wet mixture and combine until flour is just combined. Do not over mix!
Next, chill dough in refrigerator for 30-60 minutes.
Now add granulated sugar to small bowl and form dough in balls and roll balls into sugar.
Add onto buttered cookie tray or on parchment paper.
Bake for 11-13 minutes.
Enjoy!
Chocolate Molasses Cookies
Chocolate Molasses Cookies
This is a variation of the basic “Ginger Molasses Cookie”. I thought chocolate would be a great combination to try and guess what? It was a success. I used the same recipe for my Soft Ginger Molasses Cookies. So, here below is the chocolate variation of these soft, thick chocolatey ginger molasses cookies!
SOFT GINGER MOLASSES COOKIES:
Makes about 30 cookies
2/3 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup +2 tbsp molasses
1 whole egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp ginger
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cup chocolate chunks
1/3 cup cocoa powder
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 Fahrenheit (176 celsius).
In a large bowl, cream together sugar and butter.
Next, add vanilla extract, egg, molasses and mix.
In a medium bowl add flour, cocoa powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and baking soda.
Combine dry mixture into wet mixture and combine until flour is just combined. Do not over mix!
Add chocolate chunks
Next, chill dough in refrigerator for 30-60 minutes.
Now add granulated sugar to small bowl and form dough in balls and roll balls into sugar.
Add onto buttered cookie tray or on parchment paper.
Bake for 11-13 minutes.
Enjoy!
PA DUTCH MOLASSES COOKIES --Helga's Happy Holidays
These subtle molasses cookies will warm your heart and your belly!
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DIY DARK MATTER ----
PA DUTCH MOLASSES COOKIES
INGREDIENTS
1 cup shortening or butter
4 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup hot water
1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup dark molasses
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Mix flour and salt together and cut in shortening as for pastry (Mennonitese for pie.)
In another bowl, combine molasses and sugar.
Add egg and beat well.
Dissolve soda in hot water and add to molasses, egg, and sugar mixture.
Combine crumbs and molasses mixture and stir until well blended.
Chill dough for several hours.
On a lightly floured board, roll cookie dough to 1/4 inch thickness.
Place on greased cookie sheet and bake until a golden brown, about 10 minutes.
Makes about 4 dozen cookies.
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