Silver Palate Molasses Cookies are drop cookies flavored with molasses, ground cloves, ginger, and cinnamon.
Drop the wet batter straight onto a foil-lined cookie sheet. The cookies cool on the foil after baking.
Before you start
Have foil and a cookie sheet ready. Melt the butter before mixing it with the sugar and molasses.
Ingredient notes
- Unsalted butter: Melt it before adding the granulated sugar and molasses. A microwave works for this step.
- Cloves, ginger, and cinnamon: Use the ground spices and sift them with the other dry ingredients.
Silver Palate Molasses Cookies recipe
Silver Palate Molasses Cookies
Molasses drop cookies spiced with ground cloves, ginger, and cinnamon and baked on foil.
Ingredients
Method
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Melt the butter, using a microwave if you like, then add the sugar and molasses.
- Lightly beat the egg and add it to the butter mixture, or use 1/4 cup Egg Beaters. Blend well.
- Sift the dry ingredients together and add them to the butter mixture. You can use King Arthur White Whole Wheat Flour in place of all-purpose flour. It has the same texture as all-purpose flour.
- The batter will look wet.
- Line a cookie sheet with foil.
- Drop the batter by tablespoons onto the foil, 3 inches apart.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes, until the cookies darken.
- Remove the foil from the cookie sheet and let the cookies cool on the foil.
Tips for success
Leave space between spoonfuls of the wet batter on the foil.
When the cookies darken, take them out and lift the foil from the sheet. Leave the cookies on the foil to cool.
Related recipes
Mom’s Molasses Cookies Mom’s Molasses Cookies are another recipe built around molasses. Three-Ginger Cookies Three-Ginger Cookies are an option when you want a cookie centered on ginger.