The Best Molasses Cookie Recipe aka Molasses Delight

Soft on the inside, crisp on the outside this molasses cookie recipe is a butter cookie with a rich flavor of molasses that just melts in the mouth. A perfect tea time treat that takes less than 20 minutes and gives you the most amazing satisfaction.

The BEST Molasses Cookie Recipe

This has got to be one of my all-time favorite cookies I keep coming back to ever so often!!
If you know me by now; you know that my cookie jar is always full of cookies.

Ziv (yes my husband!) and Aadi both are cookie monsters.. and they need variety. So on a regular week, you will find at least two or three if not four different types of cookies in my cookie jars.
There is one cookie that is made almost every week and that’s my The Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies, the second that’s most often made is my Four Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies, followed by my Buttery Halva cookies, and believe it or not Rhea’s favorite and (time-consuming) Almond Linzer Cookies.

These are a variation on my butter cookie recipe with a few plus and minus. So if like Butter cookies and molasses these are for you. They really melt in the mouth and the crisp sugar on the outside is just a treat.

The Best Molasses Cookie Recipe aka Molasses Delight

Molasses Cookie Recipe aka Molasses Delight Video

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Recipe – The Best Molasses Cookies Recipe aka Molasses Delight.

Tools:

• Stand Mixer(optional) – I use my K-Mix
• Baking Trays
  Baking Parchment Paperto line the Baking Trays
• Preheated Oven to 170C / 340 F
• The basics – Spatula, whisk, measuring spoonetc.

The BEST Molasses Cookie Recipe – Aka Molasses Delight

Ingredients:

• Butter – 200 grams or 7/8 cups (a little less than one cup)
• Sugar 150 grams
• Extra sugar for coating  – 50 grams  (1/2 cup)
• Egg – 1 large
• Molasses – 1/4 cup molasses
• All-purpose flour – 300 grams
• Baking powder – 1/2 tsp
• Cinnamon – 1/8 tsp
• Nutmeg – 1/8 tsp
• All-spice – 1/8 tsp
• Salt – 1/4 tsp
• Vanilla – 1/2 tsp

Method:

• Preheat oven at 170 C / 340 F
• Combine the dry ingredients except for sugar
• Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy
• Add egg, molasses, vanilla – mix well.
• Lastly, add the flour and mix until just incorporated.
• Use a scoop for measure and roll dough into balls
• Dust balls in the extra granulated sugar
• Place on the cookie tray.
• You can either flatten them with your palms or use a fork to mark indents as I have in the video.
• Bake in a preheated oven for 10 to 12 minutes
• Cool on a cookie rack completely before you transfer to a cookie jar.

Storage

• These cookies will stay good for up to 2 weeks.
• The cookie dough can be refrigerated for a week or frozen for up to a month

The BEST Molasses Cookies Recipe aka Molasses Delight

The BEST Molasses Cookie Recipe aka Molasses Delight

Soft on the inside, crisp on the outside this molasses cookie recipe is a butter cookie with a rich flavor of molasses that just melts in the mouth. A perfect tea time treat that takes less then 20 minute and gives you the most amazing satisfaction.

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Course Breakfast, High Tea

Cuisine American

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 11 minutes

Total Time 16 minutes

Servings 36 cookies

Calories 200 kcal

Author Veena Azmanov

Ingredients - Choose (Metric or US Customary) below

• 200 grams Butter
• 150 grams Sugar
• 50 grams Extra fine sugar for coating 
• 1 Egg
• 1/4 cup Molasses
• 300 grams All-purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp Baking powder
• 1/8 tsp Cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp Nutmeg
• 1/8 tsp All spice
• 1/4 tsp Salt
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract

Metric - US customary

Instructions

1. Preheat oven at 170 C / 340 F
2. Combine the dry ingredients except for sugar
3. Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy
4. Add egg, molasses, vanilla - mix well. 

5. Lastly, add the flour and mix until just incorporated. 

6. Use a scoop for measure and roll dough into balls 
7. Dust balls in the extra granulated sugar 
8. Place on the cookie tray.
9. You can either flatten them with your palms or use a fork to mark indents as I have in the video. 
10. Bake in a preheated oven for 10 to 12 minutes 
11. Cool on a cookie rack completely before you transfer to a cookie jar.

Storage

1. These cookies will stay good for upto 2 weeks. 
2. The cookie dough can be refrigerated for a week or frozen for upto a month 

Recipe Video - full version (detailed)

Nutrition Facts

The BEST Molasses Cookie Recipe aka Molasses Delight

Amount Per Serving

Calories 200 Calories from Fat 81

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 9g 14%

Saturated Fat 6g 30%

Trans Fat 0g

Polyunsaturated Fat 0g

Monounsaturated Fat 0g

Cholesterol 35mg 12%

Sodium 120mg 5%

Potassium 0mg 0%

Total Carbohydrates 26g 9%

Dietary Fiber 1g 4%

Sugars 12g

Protein 4g 8%

Vitamin A 0%

Vitamin C 0%

Calcium 0%

Iron 0%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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