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Ginger Spice Molasses Cookies {Holiday Eats}

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These Ginger Spice Molasses Cookies are soft, spicy and really delicious!

Oooooh I’m super excited to share my first cookie recipe of the holiday season with you!  I love holiday baking and it can never come fast enough for me…especially Christmas cookies like shortbread, Turtle cookies, and Rugelach. Christmas cookies are the best.  Seriously.

This post is part of a Rustic Christmas Blog Hop that I’m participating in with some extremely talented Canadian bloggers!  Check out their projects at the bottom of this post…some beautiful ideas there!

So now, let’s get back coooooookies…..

Ginger Spice Molasses Cookies {A Pretty Life}

This year I started my Christmas cookie baking with these Ginger Spice Molasses Cookies.  I have been envisioning these cookies ever since I found this cookie stamp from Crate & Barrel!  Right away I pictured spicy cookies, rustic wood and red & black lumberjack ribbon…so I made it happen.  😉

Ginger Spice Molasses Cookies {A Pretty Life}

These cookies turned out soft, spicy and really really good!  My kids absolutely loved them…who can’t love a cookie baked for Santa?!

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This recipe makes a really big batch so you can eat some now and freeze the rest for later, which is great for the holiday season.  Just pop them in the freezer and pull them out as needed for friends or unexpected guests.  Also I should mention that using the cookie stamp took some trial and error.  I found the best way to make it work was to bake the cookies partially first, then stamp them halfway through the baking process.  When I stamped the dough before baking the wording kind of disappeared.  Anyway, I hope you enjoy these!

 

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These Ginger Spice Molasses Cookies are soft, spicy and really delicious!

Ingredients

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  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 cup brown sugar (lightly packed)
  • 2 eggs
  • 4 3/4 cups of all purpose flour
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 3 tsp ground ginger
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/3 cup milk
  • 1 cup molasses

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
  2. With a mixer, cream the butter and sugar.
  3. Add in the eggs one at a time.
  4. In a separate bowl combine the dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, ginger and cinnamon.
  5. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, alternating the flour mix with the molasses and milk.
  6. Separate the dough into 2 large balls – this just makes rolling out the dough easier and more manageable.
  7. Lay one ball of dough on a sheet of parchment paper and flatten it slightly. Then put another piece of parchment paper on top and roll the dough with a rolling pin, keeping the dough thick (up to 1 cm).
  8. Repeat with the second ball of dough.
  9. Refrigerate the rolled out dough for at least 15 minutes. This makes cutting the dough with cookie cutters much easier.

If you are using a cookie stamp:

  1. After the cookie dough has chilled cut the cookies into circle shapes the same size as the stamp you are using. (I used a drinking glass to make these shapes).
  2. Bake the cookies for 5 minutes then remove them from the oven and quickly and gently press the cookie stamp onto each of the cookies.
  3. Return the cookies to the oven and bake for 3 more minutes.

If you are using regular cookie cutters and no cookie stamp:

  1. After the dough has chilled cut it out with your favourite shapes.
  2. Bake for 8 minutes.

Notes

– If you like soft, chewy cookies bake for 8 minutes. For crispier cookies bake for 10 minutes.
– These freeze very nicely!

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Recipe adapted from Crosby’s Molasses

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Not only are cookies delicious, but they make a perfect holiday gift for friends, teachers, gift exchanges…just wrap them up in some parchment paper and pretty ribbon.  I found this beautiful lumberjack ribbon from May Arts Ribbon…I ordered so many great ribbons for my Christmas baking this year!

Ginger Spice Molasses Cookies {A Pretty Life}

Enjoy!

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Here are more rustic projects from some very talented Canadian bloggers…head on over and show them some love!  🙂

Rustic Christmas Ideas

Santa Cookies from A Pretty Life in the Suburbs

Deer Head String Art from Clean and Sentsible

Vintage Door Advent from The DIY Mommy

Rag Ribbon Christmas Trees from Craftberry Bush

Rustic Christmas Tree from Fynes Designs

Christmas Window Box from Echoes of Laughter

Ribbon Napkin Rings from Suburble

Vintage Table Setting from The Sweetest Digs

Twig Stars and Snowflakes from The DIY Dreamer

Pretty Gift Wrapping from The Sweetest Escape

Rustic Wreath from North Story

Wood Block Presents from The Happy Housie

Winter Swag from Satori Design for Living 

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Have a delicious and inspired day!
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Hi I'm Jo-Anna Rooney, the creator, director, baker, maker and home decorator here at A Pretty Life in the Suburbs! I'm sharing a simple home life through fresh and easy recipes and uncomplicated home tips and home decor.

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  14. I adore these! They are so simple but perfect and the trendy plaid ribbon makes them the coolest handmade gift! (PS, what do you use to create the digital recipe card?)

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  15. This is such a beautiful (and delicous) tour Jo-Anna! Your pictures are gorgeous! I can hardly wait to start Christmas baking every year too! I’ll have to try these! Have a great Saturday!

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  16. Oh how I love ginger molasses cookies! Definitely the perfect recipe to kickstart holiday baking (I still can’t believe it’s that time of year already…). Love the stamp you used on these cookies, they are too cute.

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  22. These look absolutely amazing, Jo-Anna! Pinned and trying this year…well, maybe not because we won’t have kitchen countertops installed until the week of December 17th. Maybe they can be for after Christmas?? Fun to be on this blog hop with you- sorry it took me so long to get over here!

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  24. Hi Jo-Anna! I just made these and ran into a problem. I followed the directions exactly and the dough came out far too sticky to do anything with (even after chilling for upwards of an hour). I wound up having to add a lot more flour (more than a cup extra). The dough never firmed up enough to do cutouts. I wound up rolling them into balls, dunking them in sugar, then pressing a fork into them for texture. They turned out delicious, but it would have been fun to stamp them like the photo. Thanks for a tasty cookie recipe, nonetheless!

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    1. Hi Jess! That’s a bummer! I’ve made them a couple of times, and the dough is a bit sticky, but I’ve been able to roll it…not sure what happened with yours! Sorry they didn’t turn out for you!

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  25. I’m wondering if anyone else, besides Jess, has made these cookies since I had the same problem she did. They were very sticky and just clung to my parchment paper. I added more flour and chilled again (after chilling 3 hours the first time). I ended up adding even more flour and had to flour the parchment after eventually freezing the dough. I love molasses cookies and even have this stamp so I’m desperate to make them, lol. Any suggestions at all? Maybe eliminating the milk? Thanks for any help 🙂

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  26. 4 stars
    My dough was very sticky also. I used a lot of flour on my board, dipped my cutter in flour, and baked them. I had to put them back in the oven because they were not done enough. They are very good though.

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