Top 10 Molasses Recipes of the Year 2023
Discover our Top 10 Recipes of the Year 2023! Have you tried any of these recipes? Our culinary team has curated and tested these timeless favorites, thanks to the unwavering support of molasses enthusiasts like you.
As we unveil this year’s top picks, we express gratitude to our dedicated community for choosing our recipes year after year. Join us in savoring the sweet success of these delightful creations – a celebration of flavor that stands the test of time. Cheers to the joy of molasses!
2023’s Top 10 Molasses-infused Recipes
1: Six Week Refrigerator Bran Muffins with Natural Bran
2: Old Fashioned Gingerbread Cake
3: Sarah’s Molasses Brown Bread
4: Sweet Molasses Barbecue Sauce
5: Instant Pot Molasses Baked Beans
6: Chewy Hermit Bars Recipe: Classic Molasses Cookie
7: Soft Molasses Cookies AKA Fat Archie’s
8: One-Bowl Gingerbread Cake for a Crowd
9: Grand Mother LaPointe’s Old Fashioned Baked Beans
10: Basic Buttermilk Bran Muffins
Cheryl
Looking for old fashioned soft molasses cookies.
Regina
from an old NY Times recipe by Craig Claiborne: soft molasses cookies with cream cheese frosting
½ cup butter
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
½ cup light brown sugar
½ cup molasses
1 large egg
1 ¾ cup all purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cider vinegar
2 tablespoons water
¼ cup buttermilk
 
Cream Cheese Frosting
½ cup soft butter
8 ounces cream cheese
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 ½ cups confectioners sugar
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease or line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Beat the butter, vegetable oil, and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the molasses, egg, and 3 tablespoons of the flour.
Sift together remaining flour and the other dry ingredients. Mix together the vinegar, water, and buttermilk. Add alternating to the molasses mixture and beat batter until it is very smooth.
Drop teaspoons of the mixtru onto the cookie sheets. Bake 12 to 15 minutes. Cool. Top each cookie with a round of cream cheese frosting.
To make the cream cheese frosting:
Mix the butter with cream cheese until well combined. Add vanilla. Slowly beat in sugar.
Yield: 3 dozen
Wendy Collis
Trying gingerbread shortbread in a loaf pan now…sounds very good!
Wendy Collis
Love your recipe ideas!