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Soft Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies Recipe {Video}

Published: Sep 30, 2020 · This post may contain affiliate links

How to make Soft Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies Recipe from scratch! These are one of our favorite easy cookie recipes great for Christmas or any day of the year.

Old Fashioned Soft Molasses Cookies on parchment paper

 

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Soft Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies Recipe
Recipe Tips
Duff Goldman Baking Tips
Great Cookie Recipes
Molasses Cookies
Ingredients
Instructions
Nutrition

Soft Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies Recipe

These are my absolute favorite cookies! They are soft and oh so delicious!

I love that even though they are made from scratch they are so dang easy to make. These soft molasses cookies are the perfect comfort food or gift during the holidays.

Molasses Cookies

Ingredients

  • Butter
  • Sugar
  • Egg
  • Molasses
  • Milk
  • Vanilla extract
  • All-purpose flour
  • Baking soda
  • Ground cinnamon
  • Salt

Recipe Tips

You can use a stand mixer or electric mixer to mix this dough together.

Don't forget to preheat the oven to 350 degrees...I have done this and it is never fun.

I like to line my baking sheets with parchment paper to make sure the cookies do not stick and are super easy to remove.

I use a cookie scoop to get even sized cookies. Then roll the dough into a ball before rolling in sugar. Try to coat the dough as much as you can with sugar while still maintaining the ball shape.

These old fashioned molasses cookies are light and fluffy and oh so delicious!

Stack of soft molasses cookies on burlap with one cookie showing a bite out of it.

Duff Goldman Baking Tips

1. I always use a cooking spray to coat my pans when baking a cake. Some bakers say it ruins your pans, but the exact opposite is true. Cooking sprays season your pans, and if you use one like Pompeian Grapeseed Oil Spray which has a high smoking point, your cakes will never burn from overheated oil.

2. Don't over-work your flour! Gluten is the protein in flour so when you mix dough and batter for too long, the protein chain just gets stronger and stronger and you end up with cookies and pastries that are too chewy and not tender. Think bagels. Do you want a muffin with the chewiness of a bagel? Of course not.

3. When a recipe says to scrape down the sides of the bowl when mixing dough or batter, DO IT! If not, you'll end up with a big bit of baking soda or salt in your finished product because your product wasn't mixed well. Yum!

4. Almost always under-bake your products by a few minutes. Everything keeps baking for a bit outside of the oven, so if you pull your baked goods when they are done, they will over-bake.

5. Pastry flour, cake flour, all-purpose flour, and bread flour are all different things. Learn what they are and when to use each and your baking will improve immensely.

 

Great Cookie Recipes

Chocolate Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookies

Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies

Apple Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies

Lemon Butter Cookies

Molasses Cookies

How to make a delicious Soft Old Fashioned Molasses Cookie Recipe
4.80 from 5 votes
Print Rate
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 14 minutes
Total Time: 34 minutes
Servings: 30
Calories: 145kcal
Author: Tammilee Tips

Ingredients

  • ¾ cup Butter
  • 1 cup White Sugar
  • 1 egg
  • ¼ cup Molasses
  • 2 Tablespoon Milk
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • 2 ½ cups All Purpose Flour
  • 1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
  • ¾ teaspoon Salt
  • White Sugar for coating the cookie dough

Instructions

  • Cream butter and 1 cup of sugar until light and fluffy.
  • Beat in the egg, molasses, milk and vanilla
  • Combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt
  • Gradually add in flour mixture to sugar mixture
  • Roll into 1 ¼ inch balls, roll in sugar, place on sprayed baking sheets
  • Bake at 350 degrees for 10-14 minutes until tops crack and edges are slightly firm.
  • Cool on wire racks
Cookie Sheets
Hand Mixer
Cookie Scoop - Medium

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts
Molasses Cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 145 Calories from Fat 54
% Daily Value*
Fat 6g9%
Saturated Fat 4g25%
Cholesterol 22mg7%
Sodium 207mg9%
Potassium 72mg2%
Carbohydrates 21g7%
Fiber 1g4%
Sugar 11g12%
Protein 2g4%
Vitamin A 190IU4%
Calcium 14mg1%
Iron 1mg6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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Recipe originally shared on December 5, 2013. Updated September 2020.

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Comments

  1. candice

    December 08, 2013 at 5:55 am

    4 stars
    oh my! those look amazing and will be great for my cookie swap!

    Reply
  2. Angela

    December 07, 2013 at 6:52 am

    Your cookies look wonderful, and I have used that spray before. It's great!

    Reply
  3. Ronni Keller

    December 07, 2013 at 3:52 am

    I haven't seen that yet!! I like it's a spray!

    Reply
  4. Stacie Connerty

    December 06, 2013 at 9:15 pm

    I love molasses cookies, they are so good. This recipe looks pretty easy. I have never see grape seed oil in a spray before.

    Reply
  5. Mistee Dawn

    December 06, 2013 at 9:14 pm

    Mmm, those cookies look so good. I will definitely have to try the recipe and the grapeseed oil, too. Thanks for the recipe.

    Reply
  6. Melissa

    December 06, 2013 at 8:22 pm

    Wow, those look like they turned out absolutely perfect! We always make molasses cookies at Christmas time. Yum!

    Reply
  7. Liza

    December 06, 2013 at 8:16 pm

    5 stars
    Molasses cookies are some of my very favorite! And you know, I always spray my measuring cup for things like peanut butter, but I never thought to do it with the molasses! Thanks for the tip.

    Reply
  8. brett

    December 06, 2013 at 8:04 pm

    i'm all about molasses lately! even making my own brown sugar!!

    i need to get some of this grapeseed oil

    Reply
  9. Liz

    December 06, 2013 at 7:38 pm

    Those cookies are the best looking molasses cookies I've seen in a long time. Yum! Also, those are excellent tips by Duff!

    Reply
  10. Tara

    December 06, 2013 at 5:52 pm

    5 stars
    Great post, I really want to give the grapeseed oil a try. I am curious as to what flavor it will add to the food I cook.

    Reply
  11. Pam

    December 06, 2013 at 3:38 pm

    Those cookies look amazing. They are definitely perfect for the season.

    Reply
  12. Dawn

    December 06, 2013 at 3:00 pm

    I really like the flavor of Molasses. I bet these cookies are great!

    Reply
  13. Nicole B

    December 06, 2013 at 1:44 pm

    I'll have to look for the Grapeseed oil. I want to eat the molasses cookie dough. It looks so good! (so do the baked ones!)

    Reply
  14. Ellen Christian

    December 06, 2013 at 12:48 pm

    5 stars
    Molasses cookies are some of my favorite!

    Reply
  15. Janel

    December 06, 2013 at 9:01 am

    Those cookies look amazing!! That is such a smart tip to spray your measuring cup before scooping the sticky ingredients. I bet that would help so much with shortening, too.

    Reply
  16. Brandy Myers

    December 06, 2013 at 8:17 am

    5 stars
    I have yet to work with grapeseed oil but have been seeing lots of great things about it. I am tempted to check my local store the next time I am there and give it a chance. I love baking with new oils to see which is the best for each project.

    Reply
    • Tammilee

      December 06, 2013 at 8:26 am

      Brandy, This was my first time using Pompeian Grapeseed Oil and I am hooked. I love the high smoke point and coverage from the bottle.

      Reply
  17. Marina

    December 06, 2013 at 7:28 am

    I'm yet to attempt baking with grapeseed oil but have heard the cookies turn out pretty yum!

    Reply

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