Living in a house without air conditioning means that baking is strictly out in the summer and as a result, after Christmas seem to be when I test all the recipes I’ve been stashing away. These Ginger Molasses Cookies are just so decadent that I would feel guilty not posting them. At the same time, they’re so rich and amazing I would never make them regularly, so Pre-Valentines day seems to be the perfect time to share.
Be warned: these are definitely a bake and immediately take into work (so you don’t get carried away and eat them all) kind of affair.
Cautions aside, this recipe care of Fab Brunette completely lived up to my expectations. The cookies taste identical to the ones they sell in Starbucks- definitely worth an attempt! They’re moist, chewy, and the size of your head. You’ll fall in love- so don’t say I didn’t warn you if you don’t want to head out on Valentine’s Day because you have found total spiritual and romantic fulfilment in a baked good.
Have fun! And then please write me a 1200 word e-mail describing how they taste because I’m not cut out to be vegan. Just kidding, vegan baking is easy, but come on. Cookies without butter? I’m not so far gone. Yet.
Download the ginger molasses cookie recipe here
This is ready to print out and head straight into your kitchen, or if you’re not a fan of downloads you can find the recipe after the jump…
Ginger Molasses Cookies
• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup dark brown sugar
• 1 extra-large egg
• 1/4 cup regular unsulphured molasses
• Granulated sugar (for coating cookie dough before baking)
Okay!
1.Preheat oven to 375 degrees with rack in center. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper, set aside.
2. Sift flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and ginger into a medium bowl. Set aside.
3. Cream the butter and brown sugar in a large mixing bowl with mixer on high speed until light and fluffy, about 1 minute. Lower to medium speed, beat in the egg and molasses, the increase speed to high and beat about 1 minute longer, until mixture no longer looks curdled.
4. Mix in the flour mixture on low speed. The batter will be rather stiff. Place some granulated sugar on a plate, and using an ice cream scoop or measuring cup form 1/4-cup portions of dough. Transfer dough to your hands and roll each portion into a rough ball, then roll each ball into the sugar. Place six sugared balls on each baking sheet, spacing them evenly, because they will spread during baking.
5. Dampen your fingers with water and press down lightly on each cookie to flatten it a little and dampen the top. Refrigerate one filled baking sheet while the other bakes.
6. Bake for 12 minutes, or until the cookies have spread and are firm to the touch. Allow to cool and enjoy!
Jessica @ How Sweet
These look absolutely fantastic!
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Lisa from Lisa's Yarns
Yum! Those look so so so good. I love molasses cookies. I keep meaning to find a gluten free recipe to make some, but just haven’t gotten around to it!
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Shannon
My mouth is literally salivating as we speak. And your kitchenaid mixer is gorgeous! I have been wanting one so badly for a long time now. I would love one in a funky color!
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Libby
Those cookies do look delicious, but I must say, I’m drooling over the mixer even more ;-)
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mandy
Ahh! I’ve made these cookies and they are incredibly delicious. You have an amazing will power to not taste test one of these. Do you love your kitchenaid as much as I love mine?
Until this Christmas I’ve been using a hand mixer from my grandma’s basement, that was from the early 1990s. I could KISS my mixer. Such an improvement!!
- kr
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Emily Jane
They look DELICIOUS, and those are my favourite Starbucks cookies. I’m finding with some of the new recipes I’m trying too that they’re incredibly wonderful but way too decadent to make on a regular basis :)
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Hannah
Ahhh, I LOVE molasses cookies!!! Ooo, thank you for sharing the recipe! Can’t wait to try it out.
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Sarah
Ooh. These look like a surefire way to become the best girlfriend in the world. It’s possible my fella loves ginger slightly more than he loves me.
Thanks for the recipe!
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Sarah
Also, I am envious of your kitchen-aid ownership!
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kylaroma
{New Post: Rockin’ Ginger Molasses Cookies} Total spiritual and emotional fulfillment in a baked good. For real. http://bit.ly/avTwlf
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Stefanie
I definitely have to try these. I made cookies with molasses the other day but didn’t like them at all. These look and sound a lot better – just by reading the ingredients alone.
PS: I so want one of those kitchen aid mixers too!
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Nora
Any kind of cookie is sure to be my new best friend. Seriously. Thanks for sharing! I may have to give these a try soon.
I’m also incredibly jealous of your kitchen aid mixer. Like insanely jealous.
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san
Oh, those look (and sound!) amazing. I made some Ginger Snaps for Christmas, and oh boy, I am so glad I had planned to give most of them away to my co-workers. Otherwise, it could have been real bad for my hips ;)
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Suburban Sweetheart
These sound delicious! I need to get a mixer…
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Brittany
YUM!! I LOVE homebaked cookies! :)
Thank you!! xoxo
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Angela
Your new baby is beautiful! I may just have to try this recipe out!
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Elle Bee
I can’t get enough of the Starbucks version of this cookie, so I’ll have to try these out. Yum!
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Meghan
Ohmigosh, my mouth is watering for these cookies and its not even 9am here. I can’t wait to make these, thanks!
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Kara
We don’t have AC either, so we play the “guessing game” in the fall: “Is it cool enough to turn the oven on? Should we risk it?”
I can’t even remember the last time I made cookies. This definitely wants me to bust out the cookie sheets!
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Manderz
My mouth is watering and my tummy growling after looking at those pictures. I can’t wait to try this recipe out.
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Nilsa @ SoMi Speaks
A recipe that gives me another chance to use our stand-up mixer? Yay! A recipe that risks being inhaled in one sitting? Boo! I’m torn!
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hillary
A few days ago I was lamenting the fact that my ginger cookie recipe produces crisp cookies. I was going to try to hunt down a chewy ginger cookie recipe and now I don’t have to. You rock, lady!
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hhhelpfulhints
Kyla Roma » Blog Archive » Rockin’ Starbucks Style Ginger Molasses …: Living in a house without air conditioning… http://bit.ly/bHrfZ1
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K-Tee
awww, your cookies look super yummy! i crave the starbucks version daily cause they are the perfect amount of soft and chewy but wont fall apart the moment you bite into them. cant wait to try this recipe.
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samdotcom
You make baking look like so much fun! Whenever I’m in the kitchen it is a mad dash from oven, to countertop, to fridge, and there’s always a “Shit, I forgot the _____!”
My friend, a hardcore vegan, made a vegan “Eggnog Cheesecake” for my birthday. It was beyond delicious. And she has an entire cookbook that is devoted to all sorts of vegan cupcakes, which again, are so, so good. Enjoy the rest of the month!
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Natalie Cottrell
I leave the vegan baking to Spiral Diner, our amazing local vegan diner and bakery. (If you ever make it to Dallas, God help you, you’ve got to check it out. You’d love it!) But these look amazing. Though I’m pretty sure you had me at “Starbucks” and the picture of your beautiful mixer. What can I say? I’m into aesthetics. :)
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Alana
Oooh! These remind me of my mom’s “short-stack cookies”- they’re some of my favorites! She gets a lot of her best recipes from food murder mystery novels (yes, that is an actual genre) and that’s where this one came from. I hope yours are just as delicious!
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Jen
Ohmigoodness…my husband will love you for this!!
I can’t wait to make these this weekend!!
(Your baby looks like my baby only different colors – but that’s what makes the world go round, right? :))
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Allie
Oh! I want to try to find a gluten-free variation of this too! I used to make these when I was a kid, but we called them friendship cookies. You can play around with the warming spices you add – nutmeg, cloves, cardamom, etc. So good!
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Jen
That mixer is a delightful addition to the family – I just adore it.
I must admit, however – I’m not the best of bakers. In fact, cupcakes that don’t quite rise and are shoddily iced are about as good as it gets. I’m sure my boyfriend secretly resents my lack of prowess in the kitchen.
However! I simply cannot give up the opportunity to eat a cookie the size of my head, so will give these a go and let you know if I burn the house down/have a nervous breakdown/give up and eat the raw dough. :)
.-= Jen´s last blog ..Femininity – is it all about florals? =-.
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Vanessa
I am jealous of your mixer. One day I will have to reveal the pure AWFUL that is my stand mixer, and general suckiness that is my hand mixer. One day.
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katelin
these are my favorite kind of cookies!!! my great aunt just sent me some and i about died of its heavenly goodness.
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Samantha
My Kitchen Aid mixer looks like a match to yours; it is, by far, THE BEST addition to my kitchen. It was a hand-me-down from my mom, who bought it in 1990, and it still works like brand new!
I can’t wait to try this cookie recipe; it sounds sooo delicious. I love “roll it in sugar” steps, too!
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Walking on Sunshine
I know I’ve made it as a baker when I own a Kitchen Aid mixmaster! These song delicious!
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Alyssa
Cookies? Did you say COOKIES? I don’t care what kind they are, get in my belleh! :)
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Sara
Oh those cookies look/sound delicious! Gonna need to make these sometime very soon!
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Jamie
Yum! These look super yummy!
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Erin
There is nothing I love more than a ginger molasses cookie! Yum!!!
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nicopolitan
It was a bad idea for me to read this before my lunchbreak. I am starving now.
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Becka
I LOVE ginger cookies! I’m on a no cookies diet this month but you better bet I’m saving this little recipe for when I get back from my trip! :)
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Ria
Oh god that looks so good! My sister recently baked some shortbread with chocolate on top, and I’m now in a cookie monster mode.
I love ginger cookehs!!!
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Ev`Yan | apricot tea.
These cookies look SO incredible. I have a soft spot for soft, ginger cookies. My mom made some for me & Jonathan for Christmas this past year, & I was pretty much in heaven. There is nothing like being reminded of how wonderful the world can be when you eat a warm, soft, melt-in-your-mouth ginger cookie.
& I’m with you. I’m always tempted to try the vegan baking thing, but the thought of not using butter makes me feel sad for some reason.
I have a question, though… Do you know of a good egg substitute for this recipe? We don’t eat eggs, & here in LA, we can’t just buy ONE for a recipe; we actually have to buy a whole carton of eggs. I don’t want them to go to waste, but damn… I WANT THESE COOKIES.
Help, Kyla?
<3.
I’ll do what I can! There are a number of awesome egg substitutes here that are extremely easy and tasty- I actually just bought ground flax seed to try this fix out, but I’ve used tofu and applesauce in muffins (if you use vegetable oil instead of butter, most things are insta-vegan!) and have had great results. This dough is incredibly stiff, so even with those mushy and non-binding replacements it could still hold up… I might have to try these after all… =)
- kr
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Jessica
Cookies without butter is like peanut butter without jelly. These look super tasty. Love the mixer too :)
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The Owl Diary
omigoodness. i must, must try these soon. they sound absolutely delicious, and totally addicting. thank you for sharing! xx
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Katie
Oh my goodness, I have a feeling my co-workers are going to be thanking you! I’m sooooo excited to try these!
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Kelly L
Oh man… those look nom-alicious.
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Tia
Look at your gorgeous stand mixer!!!
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Lisa
This is one of my favorite kinds of cookies. I used to make them all the time when I was little and lived with my parents! I don’t know why they are so delicious, but they are! Thank you for sharing! I hope you’re having a lovely Valentine’s Day!
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nicole antoinette
This totally reminds me that my red Kitchen Aid mixer is at my parents house and not at my house and and and I MISS IT.
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E.P.
I’ve never had ginger molasses cookies before, and I think this needs to be remedied ASAP.
Thanks for sharing the recipe, lovely!
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Margarita
I’m so glad you liked the recipe, isn’t it so yummy and amazing??
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