These Molasses Spice Crackle Cookies are crackled on top soft, chewy inside, and packed with Fall warm spices.
Let's kick off the winter season with these delicious, spicy, fragrant Molasses Spice Crackle Cookies. These cookies are packed with warm spices such as Ginger, Cinnamon, and Clove.
About These Molasses Spice Crackle Cookies
- One other component that makes these cookies very flavourful is the mix of warm spices. This recipe calls for Cinnamon, Ginger, and Cloves. See this post for different spice recipes. Spice Blends.
- The flavour in these cookies is out of this world. The zing from the ginger and warm Cinnamon flavour gives these cookies a unique flavour that takes you straight to the holiday season.
- These cookies contain ingredients that you probably have on hand. What sets these cookies apart from other drop cookies is the Molasses. Molasses will make these cookies exceptionally soft and chewy.
- This recipe calls for both Egg and Yolk. The egg stabilizes the cookies, and the yolk makes them moist and soft.
- Unlike most cookie recipes, this recipe contains Oil and not butter.
- These cookies have a beautiful crackled surface with a soft and chewy center.
- These Molasses Spice Crackle Cookies are delicious as well as beautiful. The beauty of these cookies is in the crackles. There is a choice of rolling the cookie dough into the powdered sugar or leaving the powdered sugar out.
How To Make These Cookies
- Beat the oil and the sugar until smooth and well mixed.
- Add the Molasses and mix.
- Next, add the egg, yolk, and vanilla extract.
- Sift all dry ingredients and add them to the above mixture in three passes. mix until there is no trace of dry ingredients exist. Do not overmix.
- Make small balls of cookie dough the size of a small tangerine or a walnut in the shell. Roll them in the granulated sugar, then into the powdered sugar, and bake them for 10 to 12 minutes.
- Go around each cookie with a spoon and soften the edges. Let them cool down on the cookie sheet for 10 minutes. Transfer them to the cooling rack to cool down completely.
📖 Recipe
Molasses Spice Crackle Cookies
These Molasses Spice Crackle Cookies are crackled on top soft, chewy inside, and packed with Fall warm spices.
Ingredients
For The Cookies
- 1 cup Oil
- ¾ cup Granulated sugar
- ½ cup Brown sugar
- ⅓ cup Molasses
- 1 Egg
- 1 Yolk
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- 2¾ cup All-purpose flour, Spooned and levelled
- ¾ tablespoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon Ginger
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon Clove
For Rolling
- ½ cup Granulated sugar
- ¾ cup Powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350℉ and line the baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Sift all dry ingredients and set aside.2¾ cup All-purpose flour, ¾ tablespoon baking soda, 1 tablespoon Ginger, 1 teaspoon Cinnamon, ½ teaspoon Clove
- Use the paddle attachment and beat the oil and both sugars until well mixed and smooth.1 cup Oil, ¾ cup Granulated sugar, ½ cup Brown sugar
- Add the molasses and mix.⅓ cup Molasses
- Add the egg, yolk, and vanilla extract and mix.1 Egg, 1 Yolk, 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- Add the dry ingredients in three passes and mix until there is no trace of dry ingredients. Do Not Overmix.
- Make small dough balls the size of a small tangerine.
- Place the granulated and powdered sugar in two separate bowls.½ cup Granulated sugar, ¾ cup Powdered sugar
- Roll the cookie dough in the granulated sugar first and then into the powdered sugar.
- Place them on the cookie sheet with a 2-inch space between them.
- Bake them for 10-12 minutes. They are done when the surface has cracked, and the edges are set.
- Go around the cookies with a spoon and correct the edges immediately after they come out of the oven.
- Let them cool down on the baking sheet for 10 minutes, then transfer them to the cooling rack to cool down completely.
Nutrition
Calories: 212kcalCarbohydrates: 33gProtein: 2gFat: 10gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 3gMonounsaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0.04gCholesterol: 15mgSodium: 109mgPotassium: 95mgFiber: 0.4gSugar: 18gVitamin A: 21IUVitamin C: 0.02mgCalcium: 19mgIron: 1mg
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
Robin Carruth says
Arezou brought these in to work for us - these are melt in your mouth delicious. I loved the ginger and spices in them - the BEST!
Thanks Arezou!!
Arezou Bahador says
I am happy that you liked these cookies, Robin 🙂