Cry Babies Recipes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.