Pubnico molasses cookies
A soft, chewy, warmly spiced cookie that is a feature of Acadian cooking from the Maritimes region.
YIELDS
6
TO
8
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 cup molasses
- 1 large egg
- 5 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup milk
Directions
- Cream sugar and butter, until pale and fluffy.
- Add the fancy molasses, and egg, and beat until well combined.
- In a separate bowl whisk together flour, baking soda, ginger, cloves, cinnamon and salt.
- Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture in three stages, alternately with milk.
- Bring the dough together into a ball. Transfer to a bowl, cover with cling wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Divide the dough into two, flatten it into disk shapes, one-inch thickness, wrap it in plastic, and refrigerate for at least three hours, or overnight.
- When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 350° F.
- Remove one disk of dough from the fridge and let rest for 10 minutes while you lightly flour a counter and line two cookie trays with baking parchment.
- Roll the cookie dough to a quarter inch thick (these cookies are not thin).
- Using a round cookie cutter (two to two and a half inches), cut into individual cookies and transfer to your prepared cookie trays, spacing one and a half inches apart.
- Bake for 12 minutes, once baked remove from the oven and allow to cool on a rack. Serve and enjoy!
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