Molasses Cookies Silver Palate Recipe 45

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• In a large bowl, combine oil and 1 cup sugar.
• Add egg, beating well.
• Stir in molasses, 2 cups flour, baking soda, cinnamon and ginger.
• If necessary, add a little more flour to make a firm dough.
• Shape dough into 1 1/4 inch balls.
• Roll in 1/3 cup of sugar.
• Place 3-inces apart on ungreased baking sheets.
• Bake 12 minutes or until golden brown and tops crack.
• Cool on racks.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, whisk together flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking powder, salt and allspice.
• In another bowl, using an electric mixer, beat together butter, molasses and sugar on medium-high until the mixture is superlight, fluffy and pale, about 5 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and add in eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla extract, and beat until everything is well combined, again stopping to scrape down bowl as necessary.
• Add dry ingredients all at once, and mix on low speed until just incorporated.
• Chill dough in refrigerator for 30 to 45 minutes, until firm enough to roll.
• Heat oven to 325 degrees.
• Using your hands, roll heaping tablespoons of dough into balls, then roll them in coarse sugar. (Sanding sugar is festive, but turbinado or coarse sugar will do the trick as well.) If dough becomes too soft to roll, put back in the refrigerator for 10 to 15 minutes. Place balls on a parchment-lined baking tray 2 inches apart and bake until the cookies are puffed, golden brown around the edges and baked through and the tops spring back slightly when touched, 12 to 15 minutes.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 2. Melt butter, add sugar and molasses, and mix thoroughly. Lightly beat egg and add to butter mixture; blend well. 3. sift flour with spices, salt and baking soda and add to first mixture; mix. Batter will be wet. 4. Lay a sheet of foil on a cookie sheet. Drop tablespoons of cookie batter on foil, leaving 3 inches between the cookies. These will spread during the baking. 5. Bake until cookies start to darken, 8-10 minutes. Remove from oven while still soft. Let cool on foil. makes 24 large flat cookies