Spice Cookies

30m
Prep Time
10m
Cook Time
40m
Ready In

Recipe: #913

October 19, 2011

Categories: Oven Bake



"This recipe comes from Audrey Bishop, who worked with my mother in the 1950s and I've loved it since then. I use non-latex examining gloves (some folks are allergic to latex, and they smell like balloons) when I roll the dough into balls because it won't really stick to the gloves and it WILL stick to your hands. I usually use granulated sugar to roll the cookies in, but "crystal" sugar, with larger granules, sometimes sold as "coffee sugar," works well and gives the cookies a bit of a "sparkly, holiday" look. Don't bother with colored sugar, though, because the cookies are dark enough that it won't really show."

Original is 1 serving

Nutritional

  • Serving Size: 1 (795.4 g)
  • Calories 3282.3
  • Total Fat - 158.7 g
  • Saturated Fat - 28.2 g
  • Cholesterol - 184.1 mg
  • Sodium - 4657.5 mg
  • Total Carbohydrate - 387 g
  • Dietary Fiber - 31.2 g
  • Sugars - 288.4 g
  • Protein - 96.6 g
  • Calcium - 771.2 mg
  • Iron - 24.2 mg
  • Vitamin C - 1 mg
  • Thiamin - 2.4 mg

Step by Step Method

Step 1

Cream the butter and sugar together.

Step 2

Add the egg, and mix.

Step 3

Mix the molasses and baking soda (this should foam up a bit and if it doesn't your baking soda isn't fresh) and add to the butter and sugar mixture.

Step 4

Sift the remaining dry ingredients together, and add to the sugar/butter/molasses mixture. Mix well.

Step 5

Put the dough into a smaller bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for AT LEAST several hours. I always chill this overnight.

Step 6

Keeping the dough cold (I put it back into the fridge after every 1 or 2 pans) pick off small pieces of dough (about the size of a hazelnut in the shell for about 2 inch cookies), roll the dough into balls, and roll the balls in sugar.

Step 7

Place the balls on cookie sheets (these bake beautifully on those silicone baking mats) and bake at 350°F for about 10 minutes. The cookies will look flattened, crackled and darker when done. Cool on wax paper or parchment (or a larger silicone mat, which is reuseable).

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