Super Soft Molasses Cookies
Gingerbread is a classic holiday flavor. Those warm spices, rich molasses, and deep brown sugar scream Christmastime! These soft molasses cookies are the epitome of wintertime - and we've amped them up a bit by dipping them in white chocolate. This recipe produces a soft, chewy cookie that will leave you coming back for seconds.
Servings: 24 cookies
Calories: 253kcal
Ingredients
Cookies
- ¾ cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup unsulphered molasses
- 2 ¼ cups flour
- 2 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger or 1 tablespoon fresh
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon cloves
- granulated sugar to roll dough in
frosting
- 16 ounces white chocolate chips
- ⅛ cup shortening
- ½ teaspoon almond extract optional
- cinnamon, colored sugar, or candied ginger to sprinkle on white chocolate coating
Instructions
Cookies
- In a large mixing bowl, add softened butter.
- Add in brown sugar. Using a hand or stand mixer, cream the sugar and butter together.
- Pour in molasses.
- Add eggs. Mix until well combined.
- In a medium bowl add flour.
- Add baking soda and salt.
- Toss in your spices. Whisk to combined.
- Add dry mixture to your wet mixture in your large mixing bowl. Mix until combined.
- Roll into 1 inch balls.
- Toll balls in granulated sugar.
- Place on a greased baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes.
- Transfer to a wire rack, and cool completely
Frosting
- In a microwave safe bowl, combine all ingredients.
- Microwave in 30 second increments, stirring in between each increment, until melted.
- Dip cooke cookies halfway into mixture. Cool on parchment paper. You can sprinkle with cinnamon, candied ginger, or colored sugar.
Notes
Pro Tip #1: When it comes to ginger, you can use the dried and ground that is found in the spice aisle. Or you can use fresh ginger for a bigger flavor. I cheat and use fresh ginger from a tube. It can usually be found in the produce section near the fresh herbs.
Pro Tip #2: To make your cookies flatter and more "crinkly" gently press them with the bottom of a glass immediately after they come out of the oven. This spreads the cookie out a bit.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 253kcal | Carbohydrates: 32g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 26mg | Sodium: 190mg | Potassium: 134mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 23g | Vitamin A: 193IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 58mg | Iron: 1mg