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Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies

August 11, 2011 by overtimecook 15 Comments

Just after I finished making a big batch of this dough, my heart sank. My family won’t like cookies with ginger and ohmygosh cloves. 

But the dough was ready, and I wasn’t going to throw it out. So I sat and shaped the cookies, all the while thinking about how nobody would eat them.

It’s a good thing I’m not a betting sort of woman, because I’d have lost big time. My little brother (notoriously unadventurous in the palate department) took one look at the cookies and said “Oh, yay! Snickerdoodles.” His mistake is understandable. They look a bit like snickerdoodles, with the crackly top and the sugar topping. But my tasters bit into the cookies, and far from the looks of horror I had expected, they were fighting over them-down to the last crumb!

Ingredients:

1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margerine

1 cup of sugar, plus more for rolling

1/2 cup of molasses

2 1/4 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1 1/4 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ground cloves

1 tsp ground ginger

2 eggs

3 1/2 cups all purpose flour

Directions:

In the bowl of your mixer, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, molasses, baking soda, salt and spices, scraping down the sides to incorporate everything evenly. Stir in the flour. Cover and refrigerate for an hour, to make the handling easier.

Preheat oven to 350. Grease two cookie sheets. Shape the dough into 1 1/2 inch balls (approximately a tablespoon.) Roll the ball in sugar to coat, then place carefully on baking sheet. Leave 2 inches between cookies to allow for spreading.

Bake the cookies for 10 minutes. The cookies may not look completely done, but take them out anyway, they set as they cool. Allow to cool four 10 minutes on cookie sheet before transferring to a rack to cool completely.

Adapted from the King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion

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Comments

  1. Russell at Chasing Delicious says

    August 12, 2011 at 2:07 pm

    Yum. This recipe sounds scrumptious. I haven’t made ginger cookies in such a long time. I am going to have to change that asap and try this recipe. Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  2. overtimecook says

    August 12, 2011 at 6:31 pm

    Hi Russell,
    Thanks for stopping by! Please let me know how you like them.

    -Miriam

    Reply
  3. Leah says

    August 14, 2011 at 2:59 am

    I love ginger snaps! Can you use ground ginger?

    Reply
    • overtimecook says

      August 14, 2011 at 3:08 am

      Sure can! That’s what the recipe calls for.

      These are chewy- make sure that’s what you’re looking for.

      Reply
  4. Vanilla Bean Baker says

    September 9, 2011 at 6:15 pm

    I love a chewy cookies and ginger ones are one of my favourites. Yours look delicious. No wonder these were fought over 🙂

    Reply
  5. Karen Gall says

    September 1, 2014 at 4:17 pm

    In your instructions, you omit adding the eggs. I went to the King Arthur Flour website and found that the eggs were added after the molasses, baking soda, salt and spices: “Add the eggs, beating well and scraping down the sides to incorporate everything evenly.”

    Also, do I bake the balls of dough into cookies or do I flatten the balls at all?

    I’m going out shopping now to get some molasses. These cookies look delicious!

    Reply
    • overtimecook says

      September 1, 2014 at 5:02 pm

      Thanks for pointing that out, I fixed it. No need to flatten the balls of dough!

      Reply
  6. rikki says

    September 11, 2014 at 1:51 pm

    do you think this recipe would work with agave nectar instead of the molasses? Thats what I have in my house 🙂 also, do you think the cloves can be omitted?
    Thanks! these look delicious

    Reply
  7. caryn says

    October 20, 2015 at 9:55 pm

    I have to try the molasses ginger cookies and the healthy ruggies!

    Reply
  8. Sara says

    January 5, 2022 at 8:39 pm

    Can I use coconut or maple sugar in place of white cane sugar?

    Reply
    • overtimecook says

      January 16, 2022 at 12:46 pm

      You can try, but I haven’t tested it that way so I can’t make any guarantees!

      Reply
  9. Baruch Weiss says

    March 1, 2022 at 8:19 pm

    What would happen if I used whole cloves instead of grounded?

    Reply
    • overtimecook says

      March 8, 2022 at 4:06 pm

      That is definitely not recommended as they would be extremely unpleasant to eat whole.

      Reply
      • Baruch Weiss says

        March 14, 2022 at 2:08 pm

        Then in that case, can I crush them by hand. I can’t find ground cloves at my supermarket

        Reply
        • overtimecook says

          March 23, 2022 at 9:34 pm

          I would suggest skipping it if you can’t get them.

          Reply

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