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    Home » Top Amish Recipes » Cookies, Candies & Bars

    Amish Molasses Cookies

    Published: Jun 5, 2013 · Updated: Feb 2, 2021 by Kevin Williams | 3 Comments

    I found these molasses cookies today at an Amish bakery.  I've never met a cookie I didn't like, especially molasses.  I'll post more tomorrow about where I got these beauties:).  Meanwhile, I know you'll all want a recipe. While this recipe is not the recipe used to make these cookies (Well, actually, it may be...I don't know what was used to make these), I am sharing a molasses cookie recipe from the late Elizabeth Coblentz.  There are only so many ways to make a molasses cookie and this is a great recipe. Yum!

    Amish Molasses Cookies
     
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    Author: Editorkevin
    Recipe type: Cookies
    Ingredients
    • 2 cups sugar
    • 1 cup shortening
    • 2 eggs, beaten
    • 1 cup molasses
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extra
    • 6 cups all-pupose flour
    • 3 teaspoons baking soda
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • 3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
    • 2 teaspoons ground ginger
    • 2 cups buttermilk
    Instructions
    1. Position one of the oven’s racks in the center and preheat oven to 375F degrees.
    2. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper or lightly grease them.
    3. In a large bowl beat together the sugar and shortening until creamy.
    4. Add the eggs, molasses, and vanilla and beat well.
    5. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and ginger until well blended.
    6. Add the dry mixture to the sugar mixture in several additions, alternating with the buttermilk until well combined.
    7. Drop the cookie dough by teaspoonfuls (or if you want monster-sized cookies, you tablespoons!) spaced 2 inches apart onto the prepared cookie sheets.
    8. Bake for about ten minutes, until golden around the edges.
    9. Remove from the oven and allow the cookies to cool on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes and then transfer them with a spatula to wire racks to cool completely
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    Hi, my name is Kevin Williams and I am owner of Oasis Newsfeatures and editor of The Amish Cook newspaper column.

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    Comments

    1. A.M.

      June 08, 2013 at 8:55 am

      I don't have buttermilk and never buy it (since I can never seem to use it up before it goes bad) is there a way to make it at home or another substitute?

      Reply
    2. Erica

      December 01, 2017 at 8:48 am

      Kevin, this cannot be the same recipe used for the above cookies. I followed the recipe exactly and it is more like a cake batter and not a cookie dough. I baked off just a few cookies and they look and taste more like a cake. I am making some adjustments to the dough to try and get a molasses cookie dough. I am an Amish baker and have other recipes which I prefer to use in my bakery. Hopefully, my adjustments will make the difference. I will post the end results.

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      • Kevin

        December 01, 2017 at 8:54 am

        Erica, sorry for the problem with the recipe. I have not heard from anyone else that that recipe is problematic, so let me know what happens with it!

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