Servings: 4-5 dozen serving(s)
Prep time: 60 minutes
Total time: 120 minutes
Cooking time: 60 minutes
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Easy soft molasses cookies suit any time of year.
This easy soft molasses cookies recipe is from the new cookbook, Pantry & Palate, by writer Simon Thibault. It’s a cookbook filled with old-fashioned East Coast recipes that celebrate his Acadian roots. These are recipes that he grew up with, gathered from family members and from the Acadian community in Nova Scotia where his family is from.
Molasses was a staple in Acadian households. It was always easy to come by and was (is) suited to sweet and savoury dishes. (My grandfather, an Acadian originally from Prince Edward Island, practically considered molasses its own food group, it was so essential to his diet.)
The recipes may be old time but they’re not out dated.
Pantry & Palate is an exploration of history through food. And while some recipes are not every day fare (pickled pig’s head, for example) most are perfectly suited to today’s kitchen
From chicken fricot (chicken vegetable stew) to potato pancakes, scalloped cabbage, apple cake, gingerbread and apple pie, the book is filled with everyday recipes, family-favourite sorts of recipes.
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Now is your chance to try more recipe from Pantry & Palate. Courtesy of Nimbus Publishing Ltd. we’re giving away a copy of the book.
About Simon’s easy soft molasses cookies:
This is an old fashioned soft molasses cookie recipe, made with lard. To ensure they’re tender, take care not to over-bake them. They only cook for about 8 minutes, and they might not seem cooked at that point but they’ll set once cooled. These bake in a hot oven (375 F) so the bottoms can burn easily if you leave them in too long. They’re equally wonderful baked plain or rolled in sugar.
Easy Soft Molasses Cookies Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 cup sugar
- ¾ cup lard
- 1 cup Crosby’s Fancy Molasses
- 1 tsp. ginger
- 4 cups flour
- 2 tsp. baking soda
- ¼ tsp. salt
- Sugar for rolling (optional)
Instructions:
- In a large bowl, beat together the sugar and lard until the sugar is no longer grainy. Beat in the molasses then the ginger.
- In a medium bowl, sift the flour, baking soda and salt. Add to the sugar mixture and stir until just combined.
- Refrigerate for an hour or overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 375 F.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Drop the dough by heaping tablespoonful (or a medium cookie scoop). Flatten gently with a fork. (or you can roll dough in balls & dip in sugar)
- Bake for 8 minutes (Take care not to over bake these cookies. You want them to be tender.)
If you love soft molasses cookies try our recipe for Aunt Marcia’s Soft Molasses Thumbprint Cookies.
My favourite cookie is a Pecan Chocolate Chip. Followed closely by a big spicy Gingersnap. 🙂
Molasses oat meal cookie
*drool* these look and sound fantastic. Molasses cookies are definitely in my top 10 favourites: I can’t pick just one favourite!!!
My favourite cookies are Thimble cookies but soft molasses cookies are a close second, I use my mother’s recipe
Can’t wait to try these. I love cooking with molasses!
I mixed it up. Too dry to even bake them! I couldn’t even mix any more of the flour. What a waste of ingredients!
Hi Nicole, I wish I could figure out what went wrong with your cookies. Normally the batter is very soft, which is why it needs to be refrigerated.
I had the same problem as Nicole. After everything was mixed, it was just loose, like it needed a liquid.
Lana, Could it be that your flour was scooped with a measuring cup and not by the spoonful. If you use a spoon to put the flour into a measuring cup, it puts a little air in it and will make items not so dry. We have had lots of people have success with this recipe, so I am sorry if it did not work for you. I do hope that you try it again.
FOR me its a really good sugar cookie …I can’t make them very good but some people can and they have the perfect icing (which I cant figure out what it is either cus I love it) I dolike a good soft molasses cookie and only started making them last yr when I was off for 4 months from surgery. Pinned the recipe for winter months when I turn the oven back on LOL
My favorite kind of cookie is fat archies.. so i think these would be amazing!
My family and I love a crisp and spicy Gingersnap.
Love oatmeal cookies and ginger cookies.
My husband loves molasses cookies and prefers the soft ones. Definitely trying this one out! Thanks!
My grandmother used to make soft molasses cookies and wrap date filling between
two. Making these brings back those warm memories.
Nice soft oatmeal and raisin,made with Crosby’s molasses of course :).
I bake with molasses ( Crosby) a lot. Brown bread,cookies, baked beans.
Molasses give every thing a flavour all its own.
terrific just finished making them . love molasses. cookies. just ate 6.
I remember my grandmother making homemade bread… real butter and there was molasses. She also made molasses cookies. They were the best but she never used a recipe.
I love a good gingerbread cookie!
Looking forward to having ‘ soft ‘ molasses cookies!
I love molasses cookies. My grandmother, my Mom and I have used Crosby forever. Only the best molasses for my kitchen. ?
Peanut butter cookies are my fave, but I’m dying to try these molassess cookies. They look scrumptious
My favourite cookie depends on what I’m inclined to bake or what looks interesting to me at the time, which just happens most recently Molasses Oatmeal Raisin Cookies.
Would Butter substitute for Lard?
Hi Dana, Yes, you could use butter but the texture will be a little different. The flavour will be great though.
Ginger molasses are my favorite cookies! !
Homemade ginger snaps
i do love a good molasses cookie. a good sturdy oatmeal w/ chocolate chips is also a favorite.
My favourite cookie is the classic chocolate chip cookie.
gingersnaps that really snap with ginger. thanks
I love molasses and will try this recipe
I really enjoy ginger snaps and oatmeal raisin cookies.
Hi there;
My favorite cookies are Fat Archie’s, big, soft molasses cookies which I think would be similar to this recipe. I will definitely be trying this recipe. 🙂
Thank you
a really, really zingy soft ginger cookie is the favourite here. thx
I like the molasses cookie
I love ginger snaps but have tried many Crosby’s recipes and love molasses cookie recipes that I have tried from their email info letters.
Molasses and ginger, yum!
I love soft chocolate chip cookies.
I have to say my fave is shortbread or sugar cookies.
I absolutely love chocolate chip cookies!
My favourite cookie is shortbread.
My favourite are spicy ginger molasses cookies.
congrats to the winner