Molasses Drop Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F. In large bowl, beat sugar, sour cream, butter, shortening, molasses and egg with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger and salt.
• Onto ungreased cookie sheets, drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart.
• Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until almost no indentation remains when touched in center. Cool 1 to 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Sprinkle with additional sugar while warm.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream shortening and brown sugar. Beat in molasses. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, salt and cloves; gradually add to creamed mixture. Stir in raisins and nuts., Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto greased baking sheets. Bake at 375° for 8-10 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool.

Steps:

• Cream together shortening and brown sugar. Stir in egg and molasses and mix well. Fold in dry ingredients and stir. Cover and chill until firm (1 - 2 hours).
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Roll dough into small balls (I use a small melon baller to help with this) and roll in white sugar. Place on lightly greased cookie sheets.
• Bake 9 - 10 minutes. Leave on cookie sheet one minute until set.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Toss raisins and 1 teaspoon flour together in a saucepan until raisins are coated in flour. Stir 1/4 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, and lemon juice into raisins. Pour 1 cup boiling water over raisin mixture; bring mixture to a boil. Cook, stirring constantly, until raisins start to break down and mixture thickens, 5 to 10 minutes. Remove from heat and cool to room temperature.
• Stir 2 3/4 cups flour, 3/4 cup sugar, and salt together in a bowl.
• Whisk melted shortening and molasses together in another bowl; stir in remaining vanilla extract. Dissolve baking soda in 1/3 cup boiling water. Stir soda water into molasses mixture until mixture foams and is well-combined. Stir flour mixture and molasses mixture together in a large bowl until a stiff dough forms.
• Divide dough into 2 balls; 1 dough ball for the bottom cookie rounds and 1 ball for the top cookie rounds. Cover 1 dough ball with a damp paper towel; roll remaining dough ball out to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut dough into rounds using the top of a glass or a round cookie cutter. Place these bottom rounds 2-inches apart on a baking sheet. Top each dough round with 1 tablespoon of raisin filling mixture.
• Roll out remaining dough ball to 1/8-inch thickness and cut into rounds using the same cutter. Moisten fingers slightly with water and carefully work each top round from the center outwards until each is about 1/4-inch larger around than the bottom round. Working from one edge, place top round over bottom round and filling, pressing firmly to seal the cookie. Lightly press down tops of cookies to settle filling in the pocket.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cookie is set, 10 to 12 minutes. Cool briefly on the baking sheet before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, mix together the melted margarine, 1 cup sugar, and egg until smooth. Stir in the molasses. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger; blend into the molasses mixture. Cover, and chill dough for 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Roll dough into walnut sized balls, and roll them in the remaining white sugar. Place cookies 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheets.
• Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, until tops are cracked. Cool on wire racks.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease a couple of cookie sheets.
• In a large bowl, cream together the sugar and lard. Gradually mix in the egg, and molasses. Sift together the flour, baking soda, ginger, dry mustard, instant coffee, and cloves; stir this into the creamed mixture alternately with the milk.
• Drop cookie dough by heaping teaspoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets. Press a raisin or maraschino cherry into the center of each one. Bake for 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Remove from baking sheets to cool on wire racks.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar and egg until well blended. Stir in the molasses. Combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and ginger; stir into the molasses mixture. Cover the dough and chill for at least 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets. Roll the dough into walnut sized balls. Place the cookies 2 inches apart onto the prepared cookie sheet.
• Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Beat shortening, sugar, eggs, and molasses thoroughly.
• Stir dry ingredients (flour-cinnamon) together and blend into wet ingredients.
• Stir in oats, raisins and chocolate chips.
• Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart on a lightly greased baking sheet.
• Bake 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Note: When I used a 1 1/2-inch wide cookie scoop, I got 3 1/2 dozen cookies.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper; set aside. In an electric mixer, use the paddle attachment to combine butter and brown sugar; mix on high speed until fluffy, about 2 minutes.
• Add egg and molasses, and mix on medium speed until combined, about 20 seconds, scraping down the sides of the bowl once.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt; add to butter mixture. Mix on low speed to combine, 20 seconds.
• Using 2 spoons, drop 2 teaspoons of batter on a baking sheet; repeat, spacing them 3 inches apart. Bake for 5 minutes. Sprinkle tops of cookies with granulated sugar, rotate sheets between oven shelves, and bake 8 minutes more. Rotate sheets again and bake until cookies are just brown around the edges, about 6 minutes more. Slide parchment with cookies onto a wire rack; let cool for 15 minutes. Store in an airtight container.

Steps:

• Cream shortening. Blend sugar, egg, molasses, and milk. Add sifted dry ingredients, mix thoroughly. Drop from a spoon onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375F for approximately 10 minutes.

Steps:

• Beat together the sugar and shortening until the sugar crystals have begun to break down, about 2 minutes. Beat in the egg and molasses until just combined.
• In a smaller bowl mix together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and cloves.
• Mix the dry mix and sour milk into the wet bowl in alternating thirds. Fold in raisins, if using.
• Chill the dough for two hours or more.
• Drop by rounded tablespoons onto an ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 400 degrees for 11 minutes.
• Remove from oven an place on a cooling rack. Allow the cookies to cool and dust with powdered sugar.
• Note: For best results allow your baking sheet to fully cool before using between batches.

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter, shortening and sugar until light-colored and fluffy. Beat in molasses and eggs; set mixture aside. In another large bowl, combine flour (no need to sift), salt, baking soda, ginger, cloves and cinnamon. Blend thoroughly with wire whisk. Gradually mix flour mixture into creamed ingredients until dough is blended and smooth. Roll dough into 1-1/2-in. balls. Dip tops in granulated sugar; place 2-1/2 in. apart on greased baking sheet. Bake at 350° for 11 minutes. Do not overbake. Cool on wire rack. Store in tightly covered container to maintain softness.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Combine flour, dry pudding mix, baking soda and spices. Beat shortening and brown sugar in large bowl with mixer until light and fluffy. Add egg and molasses; mix well. Gradually add flour mixture, beating well after each addition.
• Place granulated sugar in small bowl. Roll dough into 40 balls, using about 1 Tbsp. dough for each ball. Roll balls in granulated sugar until evenly coated.
• Place, 2 inches apart, on baking sheets sprayed with cooking spray.
• Bake 8 to 10 min. or until tops are cracked. Cool on baking sheet 2 min. Remove to wire racks; cool completely.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F.
• Cream the butter and sugar together until it is light
• Add the molasses and egg; beating until the mixture is smooth.
• Add the baking powder and the cocoa to the creamed mixture; then add the flour.
• Pipe the mixture onto a greased cookie sheet in mounds a little larger than a quarter.
• Bake 9 minutes or until set.
• Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely.
• Drizzle a Vanilla glaze in thin lines over the top of each cookie.
• For Vanilla Glaze: Stir together 1 cup powdered sugar with 2 tablespoons milk in a small bowl until mixture is smooth and of drizzling consistency. Stir in 1/2 tsp vanilla. Makes ½ cup.