Cry Babies I Recipes

MOM'S CRY BABY COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease cookie sheets. Set aside. Throughly cream shortening and sugar. Add molasses, egg, salt, spices, and beat until blended. Stir together water and soda and add to first mixture. Stir in flour and raisins and nuts if using. Drop from a teaspoon onto a greased baking sheet. Bake 350 degress for 10-15 minutes.
• 2. These can be served plain or iced with a simple vanilla frosting.

CRYBABY COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheets with Silpats. Into a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, ginger, allspice, and nutmeg; set aside.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. With machine running, gradually add molasses and egg. Add dry ingredients, alternating with milk, starting and ending with the dry ingredients; scrape down bowl as necessary. Stir in coconut, walnuts, and raisins.
• Drop by tablespoons onto prepared baking sheets, leaving 2 inches between cookies. Bake until golden brown, 15 minutes. Remove from oven, and let cool on pans until almost, but not completely cool, about 5 minutes.
• Dip tops of cookies into icing, and decorate with sprinkles or chopped nuts.

CRY BABIES I

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Dissolve the baking soda in the coffee.
• Cream the shortening with the white sugar. Beat in the eggs, coffee mixture, molasses, vinegar, 1/2 cup of the cocoa powder, spices, and flour. Dough should be thick and slightly sticky. Drop rounded spoonfuls of dough onto a greased cookie sheet.
• Bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Let cookies cool, then glaze.
• To Make Glaze: Combine the confectioner's sugar, 1/4 cup cocoa, and enough water to achieve a desired spreading consistency. Beat until smooth.

CRY BABY MOLASSES COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together.
• Drop from a spoon onto pan.
• Bake at 350 F until lightly browned at edges (I believe 8-10 minutes but WATCH).
• Remove to wire cooling rack (if needed let sit on pan 1-2 minutes).
• Ice while hot/warm with powdered sugar icing.

CRY BABY COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream shortning, sugar, molasses and eggs together.
• In a seperate bowl, sift flour, cinnamon, ginger, salt and.
• soda together.
• Stir in raisins and nuts.
• Alternately add flour mixture and coffee, beating well after each addition.
• Drop from a teaspoon onto greased cookie sheets.
• Bake in a moderate oven (350 F) until done, about 7-10 minute.

CRY BABIES II

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease cookie sheets.
• In a medium bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Stir in the molasses. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and ginger; stir into the molasses mixture alternately with the milk. Finally, mix in the chocolate chips and raisins. Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets.
• Bake for 10 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

CRY BABY COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. In a large bowl, thoroughly combine the shortening and sugar. Add molasses, egg, salt, and spices; beat well until blended.
• 2. In a small bowl, stir together the boiling water and soda and add to the first mixture.
• 3. Stir in the flour and mix well. Drop from spoon onto a greased baking sheet. Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for 10-15 minutes. Cool on wire rack.

CRY BABIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix together the egg, molasses, shortening, sugar, and baking soda dissolved in hot water. In a seperate bowl mix the flour, cinnamon, ginger, and salt. Add flour mixture to wet ingredients and stir until thouroughly mixed. Drop dough by the spoonful onto an ungreased cookie sheet and bake until the cookies puff up and are done in the middle (test with a toothpick as you would for cake). When done, transfer cookies to baking rack to cool a little before frosting. Frosting: Melt the butter and mix everything but the milk and food coloring together. Add just enough milk to make the right consistency of frosting, then stir in food coloring to the desired color.

CRY BABIES

Steps:

• Cream together the butter and sugar. Add the molasses. Sift the flour, cinnamon, ginger and salt. Add to the creamed mixture, alternating with the coffee. Stir in the raisins and nuts. Drop by teaspoonfuls 1 to 1½ inches apart on to cookie sheets. Bake at 350℉ (180℃) for 12 to 15 minutes.

CRY BABIES

Steps:

• Cream together butter and sugar. Add molasses. Sift flour, cinnamon, ginger and salt. Add to the creamed mixture, alternating with coffee. Stir in raisins and nuts. Drop by tspfuls 1 to 1 1/2 inches apart on cookie sheets. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes.