Virtual Cookie Swap!

Who can resist cookies? I know I can't! So today I'm pausing the EP posts to participate in a virtual cookie swap with some friends.  Here are the rules:  

I'm sharing a family recipe for molasses cookies. My mom and my sister Heather used to make these all the time when I was little and there is no cookie more delicious or nostalgic for me in the world that this one. Except maybe for Heather's oatmeal-chocolate-chip-raisin, freezer cookies, which perhaps I'll share another time--Because, YUM.  In the meantime, you can't go wrong with these. 

Molasses Cookies, Benedict-Style

1 cup butter (room temp.)

2 cups sugar

2 eggs

1/2 teaspoon ginger

1 teaspoon cinnamon

3 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup molasses

~4 cups flour

sugar for dusting

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350F

Cream together the butter, sugar and then eggs. Mix in the ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, salt and molasses until combined. Add 4 cups of flour stirring in one at a time. Stop there for thin, yet chewy and delectable cookies. For slightly thicker cookies add a bit more flour. (Bake a test cookie or two until you get the proportion just right for your taste.)

Roll cookies into balls about an inch in diameter and dip the top of each in a small bowl of sugar. Bake on a greased cookie sheet or parchment paper for 10 minutes.

Enjoy!

All these other ladies are serious foodies, sure to post amazing recipes, so be sure to check them out! 

Monica,
Kathy,
Carrie,
Michelle,
Teresa,

Happy Holidays to all!