My kitchen is hopping today with all the Christmas baking. Cookies, cakes, cinnamon rolls, and candies are all in the process of baking and cooking. I’ll wrap up trays and baskets to share as presents for the holiday as well as when folks drop by over Christmas weekend.
I posted on Facebook earlier that I wished I had smell-net today. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could bottle up that smell to spritz around later in the year?
I have to tell you though, these Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies instantly make your house smell out of this world delicious.
I really think you should try these cookies soon. You’ll love them!
Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies Recipe
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A delicious recipe for Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies that you’ll love.
Author: Robyn Stone | Add a Pinch
Serves: 56
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 large egg
- ¼ cup molasses
- 2 cups all-purpose, flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ cup sugar for rolling
Instructions
- Cream together butter, sugars, and eggs until smooth and creamy.
- Pour in molasses and mix until thoroughly combined.
- Mix together all dry ingredients in a separate bowl. Slowly add dry ingredients into mixer and mix together until just combined.
- Cover mixing bowl with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for an hour to chill or in the freezer for 15 minutes.
- Remove from freezer and scoop walnut sized balls of dough and roll into smooth balls.
- Then, roll in the granulated sugar and place onto a parchment lined baking sheet leaving about 3 inches between cookies.
- Chill for 20 minutes in the refrigerator.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and bake for 12-15 minutes.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool.
- Store in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
Notes
Chilling cookie dough thoroughly before baking prevents cookies from over spreading during baking.
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These look delicious! I made some gingersnaps last year that were tasty, but way too hard and crunchy. I think these chewy ones would be much mo better.
Those are gorgeous!!
Mmm these are lovely!
I can imagine how good the house must smell with a batch of these cooking out of the oven!
This looks JUST like my Grandmother’s lost recipe to her Maine Spice Cookies. Thank you for posting this!!! YAY!
I was just craving these last weekend, well, let’s be honest, I’m still craving them! Maybe they’ll have to join our little Christmas dessert table! They look just wonderful!
Thank you so much for posting these! We make the same cookies at our house every Christmas, and they always disappear faster than you can blink. When I made them for my co-workers, one of them told me they were the best cookies she had ever had. So glad to see someone else making them!
These would be great gifts for the neighbors!
These cookies sound addictive!
Happy Holidays Robyn!
I think you are right, I would love them!! Gorgeous pictures girl!
Those cookies sound wonderful. They remind me of a cookie a co-worker passed around this year.
Those cookies sure look good. I bet it tastes good too xD
I have these cookies in the oven right now! I can’t wait to try them. I wanted to let you know that in the instructions, you said to add the eggs at two different times!
I sure hope you love them! Oh my goodness! Thanks so much for letting me know about that. I’m fixing right now!
I fixed this recipe few months ago and it turned perfect. Today I decided to make some but the cookie color wasn’t the same as the first ones I made nor the ones you have in the pictures above. I rememberd I didn’t stir the molasses so I had to fix it again for a second time so I did. Well guess what same thing happened so I am just wondering what is the problem with my cookies? Oh BTW I used the same jar of the Molasses used last time.