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Sprinkles for crinkles! These are the cookies Julia and her cousin made. (submitted photo)
As I pulled the first batch of cookies from the oven and eyed them critically they looked more like biscuits than cookies! I scanned my recipe. Sure enough, I had forgotten to tell the children to put in baking soda. I groaned and then mixed more soda into the dough.
As the cookies cooled, the children had fun decorating them with Julia’s cake decorator and topping them with sprinkles.
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The Amish Cook: Julia's Molasses Crinkles With Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
- 3/ 4 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 /4 cup sorghum
- 1 /2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons baking soda dissolved in 1 /4 cup milk
- 1 /2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 /2 teaspoon ginger
- 1 /2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 2 1 /4 cups flour
- CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
- 8 ounces of cream cheese, softened
- 1 stick butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 1 /2 cups powdered sugar
- Several drops red food coloring (optional)
Instructions
- Cream together butter and sugar.
- Add egg and sorghum.
- Blend together well.
- Add dry ingredients.
- Mix well.
- Put half cup white sugar in a bowl and roll cookies in sugar (rolling in sugar is optional, I don’t just to cut down on sugar intake).
- Place on greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 10 – 12 minutes.
- Don’t overbake.
- After cooled, mx together cream cheese frosting ingredients and spread onto the cookies.
Linda from KY
With the many projects that Gloria had going on at the same time, I'm amazed she was able to keep it together as well as she did. I have forgotten important ingredients before, such as sugar for homemade blueberry pies that I made. Thankfully, it was at a family gathering where everyone there loved me and were most gracious about mistake. Of course, there was still some teasing involved, but it was funny.
Kevin
Sugar-free blueberry pie, you might have stumbled upon a popular recipe!:)
Pam
Sure gave me a laugh for the day. I can see that happening since I had small kids once that I also shared baking with. Good attitude Gloria!!!
Kevin
Yes, baking with little ones is an adventure, that is for sure!