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Holiday baking is off to a start at my farm and I have so many recipes I want to bring you! Molasses crinkle cookies are such a traditional holiday cookie. Incorporating a great blend of ginger and cinnamon, they’ll instantly remind you of your grandma’s kitchen and those precious family Christmases. I am so excited to share some of my favorite family recipes with you so you can start your own family traditions to pass along.
More Christmas Cookies
- Peppernuts
- Brown butter oatmeal cookies
- Brown sugar cookies
- Butter pecan cookies
- Fudgy chip cookies
- Brown butter Snickerdoodle cookies
- White chocolate macadamia nut cookies
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Molasses Crinkle Cookies
Ingredients
- ¾ cup lard
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- ¼ cup molasses
- 1 large egg
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- ¼ tsp kosher salt
- ¼ tsp ground cloves
- ½ cup turbinado sugar
- ⅓ cup candied ginger chopped
Instructions
- Cream the lard and brown sugar together until fluffy. Add molasses and egg and mix well to completely incorporate.¾ cup lard, 1 cup light brown sugar, ¼ cup molasses, 1 large egg
- In a separate bowl fitted with a sifting colander, measure flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ground ginger, and cloves, and sift. Add dry ingredients to the wet and mix just to incorporate. The dough will be dry.2 cups all-purpose flour, 1 ½ tsp baking soda, 1 tsp ground cinnamon, 1 tsp ground ginger, ¼ tsp kosher salt, ¼ tsp ground cloves
- To bake, make balls with a two-ounce cookie scoop. Roll with hands and then roll in turbinado sugar. Place on a parchment-lined baking sheet and top with a pinch of candied ginger. Press ginger in slightly to adhere. Bake at 350°F for 10-12 minutes.½ cup turbinado sugar, ⅓ cup candied ginger
- Once done baking, let rest on pan for a few minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
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Nutrition
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Lard as in crisco?
You can use crisco in place of lard but I like using actual lard, rendered pork fat. It bakes beautifully!
I love molasses cookies like my mom used to make, many moons ago. Haha. .
Even though my husband and I are supposed to be limiting our sugar intake, I’m going to make a batch of these this Christmas – just for us! Because, unfortunately, we will not be getting together with the kids and grandkids this year so, ……why not, right?
This is such a friendly cookie recipe that just begs to be made and given away!!! Going to bake this one for sure!
I made these today. Mine didn’t crinkle, I didn’t have the candied ginger. and Mine are flat. My baking soda is good until 06/23 .. I used Crisco instead of lard, would have made a difference? the Flavor is good. Just flat. 🙁
Hi mollie. I had the same experience. Totally flat cookies. Was really disappointed. I substituted butter for the lard. Not sure if that made a difference.
Lard must be used! Not vegetable oil(Crisco) not butter .. lard!
I made these today. Mine didn’t crinkle, I didn’t have the candied ginger. and Mine are flat. My baking soda is good until 06/23 .. I used Crisco instead of lard, would have made a difference? the Flavor is good. Just flat. 🙁
I made your molasses crinkles today and they turned out exactly like yours. What a wonderful recipe. My mom used to make these and she called them by the same name as you. Thank you so much for the recipe. They have been so nostalgic for me with my parents gone but so many memories. Bless you. I love your show.
Lard? My daughter, 50yo, would cringe. Who has made this recipe?
They told us lard was bad for us so we’d buy Cr1sco. Lard is actually better, so I read, than we’ve been conditioned to believe. I know, though… I cringed, too. ha ha ha
Does it matter if you use light or dark brown sugar?
My mother had a tradition of sharing her Christmas cookies every year to everyone she knew. They all had their favorites and she remembered to give you extra of those. Every year Mother would call myself and my sister over to assemble to packages. My mother and my sister passed away two years ago. I have tried to carry on her tradition, on a much smaller scale I just say. All of her recipes were in her head but I do remember some of them from baking with her. Thank you for sharing your family’s recipes to add to my mother’s.
I didn’t think I’d bake much this year, but…..after viewing your professional and yummy looking video I may have to rethink that….great job guys!