Soft Molasses Cookies
These bite-size, soft molasses cookies are the perfect sweet treat. Frosted with molasses frosting with festive sprinkles added, these the perfect for the holidays.
Servings: 48 Mini Cookies
Ingredients
Molasses Cookies
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ¾ cup butter, softened
- ¼ cup molasses
- 1 large egg
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Optional: sugar for rolling the cookies in
Molasses Frosting
- 4 oz cream cheese, room temperature
- ¼ cup butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon molasses
- 1½ cups powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°
- In a large mixing bowl, beat sugar, butter and molasses together.
- Beat in egg until light and fluffy.
- Mix in flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, ginger, cloves and nutmeg together until well combined.
- Cover dough and refrigerate for about an hour. This makes handling the dough much easier.
- Roll dough into ½ in balls. Roll each ball in sugar to coat.
- Place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and let sit for 1 minute before removing cookies and placing on a wire rack to cool completely.
- In a medium mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and butter together until creamy.
- Add vanilla and molasses, mix well.
- Slowly add powdered sugar and beat until creamy.
- Frost cookies once they have cooled.
- Garnish with gold sprinkles, optional