jenny's soft molasses cookies

Name: Jenny's Soft Molasses Cookies
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cup - crisco all-vegetable shortening; 1-1/2 cups - granulated sugar; 2 - eggs; 1 cup - unsulphured molasses; 1 tsp. - ground cloves; 1 tsp. - baking soda; 1 tsp. - baking powder; 1 sp. - ground cinnamon; 1 tsp. - ground ginger; 1/2 tsp. - salt (my daughter omitted this); 1 cup - 2% milk; 5-1/2 cups - unbleached flour; Addtional - granulated sugar (used to dip bottom of a buttered glass into it)

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Cindi Marie Bauer

Marshfield, WI

Updated on Feb 4, 2014

Back in 2010, my daughter Jenny had made these cookies, and shared them with me. My daughter also used a Kitchen-Aid Mixer, a medium size Pampered Chef Cookie Scoop, and baked the cookies on Pampered Chef Stoneware.

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yield About 5-1/2 dozen (3-inch) cookies

Ingredients

1 cup - crisco all-vegetable shortening
1-1/2 cups - granulated sugar
2 - eggs
1 cup - unsulphured molasses
1 tsp. - ground cloves
1 tsp. - baking soda
1 tsp. - baking powder
1 sp. - ground cinnamon
1 tsp. - ground ginger
1/2 tsp. - salt (my daughter omitted this)
1 cup - 2% milk
5-1/2 cups - unbleached flour
Addtional - granulated sugar (used to dip bottom of a buttered glass into it)

How To Make jenny's soft molasses cookies

Step 1

Cream together, the shortening and sugar.

Step 2

Add the eggs; beating them well.
Step 3

Mix in the molasses and the spices.
Step 4

Add the milk, mixing it into the creamed mixture.
Step 5

Now add the flour, mixing it well into the creamed mixture.
Step 6

To make the cookies, use a medium size Pampered Chef Scoop. (The medium scoop is equal to 2 tablespoons.) Scoop cookie dough onto Pampered Chef Baking Stoneware. Drop 8 scoops of cookie dough onto each rectangular stoneware.
Step 7

Butter the bottom of a beverage glass, then dip it into the sugar. (Jen used the bottom of a wine glass to flatten the cookie dough.) Flatten cookie dough with the bottom of the glass, to 1/4-inch thick. Each cookie should end up being about 3-inches in size.
Step 8

Bake cookies in a 350 degree oven for 12 minutes.
Step 9

After removing stoneware from the oven, let cookies set 2-3 minutes on the stoneware, before removing them to a wire rack to cool completely.
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