Ginger Spice Molasses Cookies {Holiday Eats}
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…..
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. 😉
These cookies turned out soft, spicy and really really good! My kids absolutely loved them…who can’t love a cookie baked for Santa?!
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!
Ginger Spice Molasses Cookies
These Ginger Spice Molasses Cookies are soft, spicy and really delicious!
- Yield: 36 cookies 1x
Ingredients
- 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
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
- With a mixer, cream the butter and sugar.
- Add in the eggs one at a time.
- In a separate bowl combine the dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, ginger and cinnamon.
- Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, alternating the flour mix with the molasses and milk.
- Separate the dough into 2 large balls – this just makes rolling out the dough easier and more manageable.
- 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).
- Repeat with the second ball of dough.
- 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:
- 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).
- 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.
- Return the cookies to the oven and bake for 3 more minutes.
If you are using regular cookie cutters and no cookie stamp:
- After the dough has chilled cut it out with your favourite shapes.
- 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!
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!
Enjoy!
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Here are more rustic projects from some very talented Canadian bloggers…head on over and show them some love! 🙂
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!
Oh!! Thanks for the recipe Jo-Anna!! Those cookies and stamp are ADORABLE!! Pinned!
Thank you Christine!
Mmmm, I love Molases cookies, makes me think of my grandmother, they were her specialty. I’m going to file this one under must bake!
I love these too – they’re very nostalgic!
OMG what a beautiful series of photos …
Thank you Mom! 🙂 I had fun with this shoot – it came together just right.
I am pretty sure these are my favourite cookies you’ve ever made!!
Haha thanks Alex! I think they’re my fave too!
Jo…how gorgeous!! your photos are killing me…just perfect! xo
Thank you Lucy! xo
These are so beautiful!
Thank you Sarah!
These look fantastic. Love ginger cookies!
Thank you Shauna! I love ginger cookies too!
Omg these are beautiful. Love the stamp idea :-).
Thank you Sarah! It’s the first time I’ve used cookie stamps and now I think I’m addicted! 😉
These are beautiful and I want to buy the cookie cutters!
Thank you Helene! Aren’t they great?! You can find them at Crate and Barrel…they’re very reasonably priced too.
We don’t have one in Ottawa. I don’t know if we can order online from Crate and Barrel.
The more molasses the better! Love the cookie stamp idea too!
I agree! Molasses makes cookies so moist and flavourful!