Molasses Cookies Silver Palate Recipe 45

MOLASSES COOKIES - (SILVER PALATE) RECIPE - (4/5)

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

GINGER-MOLASSES COOKIES

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.

SILVER PALATE MOLASSES COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
• Melt the butter (I just put it in the microwave), and add sugar and molasses.
• Lightly beat the egg (or use 1/4 cup eggbeaters) and add to the butter mixture, and blend well.
• Sift the dry ingredients together, and add to the butter mixture(I use King Arthur Flour White Whole Wheat--it has the same texture of all-purpose).
• It will look wet.
• Line a cookie sheet with foil.
• Drop the batter by tablespoons onto the foil, 3 inches apart.
• Bake 8-10 minutes, until the cookes darken.
• Remove foil from cookie sheet, and let the cookies cool on the foil.