This is my mother-in-law’s recipe and one of Ian’s favorite cookies all year round, but they’re particularly nice at the holidays. Perfectly spiced, crisp on the outside with sugar, and soft and chewy in the middle. Can’t go wrong really.
Spiced Ginger Mounds
3/4 cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup molasses
2 cup flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp ginger
Preheat oven to 325 F. Lightly grease a baking sheet. First, sift together dry ingredients. Then cream together butter and sugar until smooth and beat in egg and molasses. Beat until light and fluffy, then slowly stir in dry ingredients.
Shape into small balls and roll each in granulated sugar. Place on greased baking sheet about 2 inches apart. Bake in preheated oven for 12 minutes or until lightly golden brown.
Makes 4 dozen cookies.
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Very lovely item and you have at home snacks and I like the way it is shown and explained to everybody..
12/22/2009 @ 4:59 am
These were so delicious, great recipe! Only thing is that I didn’t read it through carefully and added sugar in as a “dry ingredient”, then moved on to the next step: “cream together butter and sugar…”. Oops. Fiddlesticks.
12/24/2009 @ 3:34 am