Molasses Sugar Cookies Recipe

There is nothing simpler and easier to make then making some sweet and buttery molasses sugar cookies.   Below is my simple to follow recipe for making some delicious molasses sugar cookies that are made with dark molasses, brown sugar, butter, vanilla, cinnamon, ginger and clove.  These molasses sugar cookies are truly exceptional and well worth the effort to make.

Ingredients:

3 cups of sifted all purpose flour
2 teaspoons of baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon of ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon of ground clove
1/4 teaspoon of salt
2 sticks of unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups of brown sugar
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons of dark molasses
2 tablespoons of water
1  teaspoon of vanilla extract
2 small eggs
1/3 cup of granulated sugar for decorating

Instructions:

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.

You will want to begin by taking a small mixing bowl and add in your flour, baking powder cinnamon, ginger, clove and salt and whisk your ingredients together.  Set this aside.

Now take a large mixing bowl and add in your butter, brown sugar, molasses and water and cream your ingredients together with a hand mixer until your mixture is smooth.  Do not over mix though.  Next add in your vanilla and eggs, one at a time, and continue to mix until your ingredients are fully incorporated.  Now take your dry ingredients and add them in about a cup at a time and mix with your hand mixer until all of your flour is fully incorporated and you have created a dough.

You will now want to chill your dough in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.  Overnight would be best though.

After 2 or more hours remove your dough from the refrigerator and shape the dough into balls about the size of walnuts and then roll the balls in the 1/3 cup of sugar.  Now place balls on a greased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart since they will spread a bit.  You will then want to place the cookie sheet in your preheated oven and bake until your cookies are golden brown.  This should take 10 to 15 minutes.   You will want to rotate your cookie sheet half way through.  Let your molasses sugar cookies stand on your cookie sheet for two minutes after you remove them from the oven.  Then place them on wire racks to cool.