Spice Cookies
Created by Marion_in_Savannah on October 19, 2011
- Servings: 1
- Prep Time: 30m
- Cook Time: 10m
- Recipe #913
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 2 cups flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 heaping tsp cinnamon
- 3/4 tsp ground cloves
- 3/4 tsp ginger
- 1 dash cayenne pepper (optional, but about 1/8 tsp adds a bit of "zing")
How to Make
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Step 1: Cream the butter and sugar together.
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Step 2: Add the egg, and mix.
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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.
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Step 4: Sift the remaining dry ingredients together, and add to the sugar/butter/molasses mixture. Mix well.
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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.
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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.
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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).
Nutritional Facts
- 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