Betty Crocker's Heart Healthy Cookbook shares a recipe! Molasses provides a simple addition to these traditional cookies that are made with Gold Medal® flour - perfect for dessert.
Jumbo Molasses Cookies
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 3 hr 40 min
- Servings 36
- Ingredients 12
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup dark molasses
- 1/2 cup water
- 4 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
- Sugar

Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Beat 1 cup sugar and the butter in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in remaining ingredients except sugar. Cover and refrigerate at least 3 hours until dough is firm.
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Step2Heat oven to 375°. Generously grease cookie sheet with shortening. Roll dough 1/4 inch thick on generously floured cloth-covered surface. Cut into 3-inch circles. Sprinkle with sugar. Place about 1 1/2 inches apart on cookie sheet.
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Step3Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until almost no indentation remains when touched lightly in center. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.
Nutrition
130
Calories
2 1/2g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
25g
Total Carbohydrate
13g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 130
- Calories from Fat
- 25
- Total Fat
- 2 1/2g
- 4%
- Saturated Fat
- 1 1/2g
- 7%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 5mg
- 2%
- Sodium
- 150mg
- 6%
- Potassium
- 150mg
- 4%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 25g
- 8%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 13g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 2%
- 2%
- Iron
- 6%
- 6%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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