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Molasses Cookies with a Kick Recipe

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This is a combination of spices that I have used for a long time. It's also one of my mother's favorite cookies. I get requests from her to make them year-round! —Tamara Rau, Medina, North Dakota

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Molasses Cookies with a Kick Recipe

Prep: 40 min. + chilling Bake: 10 min./batch

Yield: 96 Servings

40 10 50

Ingredients

3/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup molasses
1 egg
1-1/2 teaspoons minced fresh gingerroot
2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon each ground white pepper, cardamom and coriander
3/4 cup turbinado (washed raw) sugar

Directions

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in the molasses, egg and ginger. Combine the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, cloves, cayenne, salt, nutmeg, white pepper, cardamom and coriander; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 1-1/2 hours or until easy to handle.
Roll into 1/2-in. balls; roll in turbinado sugar. Place 3 in. apart on lightly greased baking sheets.
Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes or until set. Cool for 2 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Store in an airtight container. Yield: 8 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 1 cookie equals 41 calories, 2 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 6 mg cholesterol, 28 mg sodium, 7 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, trace protein. Diabetic Exchange: 1/2 starch.

Originally published as Molasses Cookies with a Kick in Taste of Home October/November 2010, p73

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Reviewed on Nov. 28, 2010 by allison22_23

Very delicious. I didnt have the cardamon so left it out... but still great!

Reviewed on Nov. 28, 2010 by suzibird2

Rave reviews from friends and fam....YUM!

Reviewed on Oct. 01, 2010 by FruitGal

I will make this recipe many times - Yum! The spice blend is just right. I would call them Gingersnaps more than Molasses cookies. I used 1 stick of butter and 1/4 cup shortening as I don't really like to taste butter in these kinds of cookies; therefore, mine were not as flat as pictured. I rolled/shaped a piece of dough into a thin log on the countertop and then sliced it to get even 5/8" balls that baked up 1 3/4" cookies.

Reviewed on Sep. 26, 2010 by dblaze1

These do indeed have a kick (you may want to reduce the cayenne pepper)! I made the dough the day before and baked them the next day directly from the fridge. I made mine larger than stated it made 30.

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