Learn how to make this delicious, old-fashioned ginger molasses cookies recipe!

These are so soft and tasty youve never had a cookie like this before.

Tis the season to eat cookies!

Molasses ginger cookies recipe

Tra la la la la, la la la la.

Time for baking cookies, singing carols, and baking more cookies.

Its certainly no time to cut back on butter or sugar, thats for sure.

molasses ginger cookies

Well, at least not if you want to eat these totally delicious ginger molasses cookies.

This recipe is large enough for aChristmas cookie exchange youll get 48 cookies total!

These old fashioned cookies are so good.

ginger molasses cookie on a plate

Seriously, so so good.

Theyre perfect little pillows of soft and chewy, fudgy, spicy, buttery, ginger cinnamon goodness.

A good molasses cookie is soft, mild, sugar-y, and kinda fudge-y.

ginger molasses cookie recipe

Thats my humble opinion.

How do you make these cookies soft?

The recipe is designed so that the cookies retain moisture.

cream butter and sugar

Binding the water in all of the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients slows the evaporation.

Its important that you follow the recipe exactly so that you get soft, old-fashioned style cookies.

How long do these cookies last?

add the egg and molasses

ensure to place these cookies in a loosely covered container at room temperature.

These will last about a week to two weeks .

the more they are exposed to air, the more moisture they lose.

whisk together the dry ingredients

That means over time, they arent as soft.

But they are still delicious!

Now that were done with all that, lets dive into the recipe!

mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients

Serve, eat, enjoy with cold milk.

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rolling the dough balls in sugar

Dough balls placed on a cookie sheet

Transfer the cookies to a wire rack