Place 12 cup sugar for dipping in a shallow, wide bowl. Not surprisingly, many of my dont mess with it recipes come from the geniuses at cooks illustrated. We cut down on the molasses in this recipe but not too much and used sucanat, a natural sugar substitute, in its place to get a rich, deep flavor while cutting out more than a quarter of the sugar, from 20 grams to 14. Nov 15, 2015 long ago i dumped an old molasses spice cookies recipe for this one and have never looked back. I turned, naturally, to cook s illustrated and chose their molasses spice cookies with orange essence recipe for my new bottle of molasses. Whisk flour, baking soda, spices, and salt in medium bowl until thoroughly combined.
Very tasty molasses cookies, i got the recipe from a friend and made them a couple christmases ago. Molasses cookies are similar in flavor to ginger snaps, but these cookies have a chewy bite rather than the crunch of traditional ginger snaps, and the recipe actually contains no ginger at all. Aug 24, 2008 molasses spice cookies from cook s illustrated measure the molasses in a liquid measuring cup. Stir 1 cup sugar, the molasses and the egg into the butter. The nottoosweet recipe was inspired by a molasses spice cookie from cook s illustrated. Molasses triple chocolate cookies are very amply flavored with molasses, ginger, cinnamon, and cloves. How we use your email address america s test kitchen will not sell, rent, or disclose your email address to third parties unless otherwise notified. Cooks illustrated holiday baking christopher kimball on.
Although i made a few mistakes especially with the chocolate spice, cinnamon swirl, and mexican wedding cookies, they all came out well. Your email address is required to identify you for free access to content on the site. Cooling the cookies completely on the baking sheet will yield crispier, more perfect cookies. There is a new version of the cookbook aptly titled, the new best recipe. Apr 15, 2016 the molasses spice cookies featured in their 1999 cookbook, the best recipe, certainly falls into that category. Holiday cookie contest is sweeter than ever ecookbook. We made more than 50 batches to find the best recipe for an uncommonly soft, chewy cookie with warm, tingling spices. Molasses spice cookies should be ultramoist, but to yield such results means the cookies are usually packed with sugar.
I turned, naturally, to cooks illustrated and chose their molasses spice cookies with orange essence recipe for my new bottle of molasses. How we use your email address americas test kitchen will not sell, rent, or disclose your email address to third parties unless otherwise notified. May 01, 2011 these cookies are simple cecilia likes to help and hard to really screw up the biggest nono is over cooking. Nov 18, 2011 barely adapted from sweet melissa patisserie, cooks illustrated and a few other places. Pour 1 tablespoon of raw sugar into a small, shallow dish for rolling. Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 375 degrees. We made more than 50 batches to find the best recipe for an uncommonly soft, chewy cookie. One of my alltime favorite cookies so good, they make me want to hide them somewhere so i can eat them all myself intensely flavorful, soft, moist, spicy, and chewy and a light crunch on the outside from the rolling sugar. The fivespice molasses cookies, from the novemberdecember 2017 issue of bake from scratch, are a grand victory for molasses.
And while i could remake gingerbread cake or gingerbread cookies, as always, why not try something new. They a team of highly specialized taste testers, instead of me, spent the time and money and came up with a great recipe. Molasses spice cookies are often miserable specimens, no more than flat, tasteless cardboard rounds of gingerbread. Barely adapted from sweet melissa patisserie, cooks illustrated and a few other places. These cookies are simple cecilia likes to help and hard to really screw up the biggest nono is over cooking. Cooks illustrated molasses spice cookies fluffy and rich. My husband shocked me by bringing home cis new best recipes from the library last night. This book covers cookies of all kinds, from those you form into balls and drop on a baking sheet and ones that you roll out and cut into shapes, to those you pat in a baking pan to create bars.
This recipe for these cookies is barely adapted from cooks illustrateds best recipe cookbook, and is one. This constitutes contributing to the insanity of a spouse. Soft and chewy molasses spice cookies steele house kitchen. Center a rack in the oven and preheat oven to 375 f. I went to the cooks illustrated baking book and found a recipe that looked promising and which i had never tried. So one year, i went searching for a new recipe to treat my dad to cookies for his december birthday. The recipe was really easy to follow, and i made just a few modifications. The ultimate kitchen companion for the home baker with 375 foolproof recipes by cooks illustrated magazine editors 2004, hardcover at the best online prices at ebay.
Cook s illustrated holiday baking christopher kimball on. Reduce the speed to mediumlow, add the egg yolk and vanilla extract, increase the speed to medium and beat until thoroughly combined, about 30 seconds. Otherwise, ill write cancel on the invoice, return it, and owe nothing at all. Cooks illustrated annual edition 2002 eat your books. The americas test kitchen family cookbook by americas. In a large 3 or 4 quart saucepan, melt butter over low heat. Discover foolproof recipes for cookie jar classics, recipes for irresistible rich and chewy brownies, delicious bars, fancy treats, and nobake cookies. No matter, molasses spice cookies area family recipe now. After glazing the cookies, sprinkle with crushed candy canes, colored sugar, or chopped nuts. Jack likes some of the more classic treats like hermits and molasses spice cookies, but he also has a taste for more adventurous cookies like millionaires shortbread and hazelnut espresso truffle cookies.
Soft and chewy molasses spice cookies brown eyed baker. Soft and chewy molasses spice cookies americas test kitchen. Cooks illustrated magazine, janfeb 2002 eat your books. Dec 05, 2017 cup granulated sugar about 2 12 ounces, plus 12 cup for dipping. Dec 09, 20 adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 375f. Soft and chewy molasses spice cookies cooks illustrated. The recipe for these cookies comes from cooks illustrateds the best recipe cookbook. Please send my free trial issue of cooks illustrated magazine. Highly spiced with cinnamon, allspice, cloves, vanilla, and of course ginger, and sweetened with sugar and rich molasses, these are the best crinkle cookies, for holidays or anytime of the year. Using an electric mixer, beat together the butter and both sugars on mediumhigh speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Molasses spice lemon sandwich cookies cooks country. For a smooth, evenly glazed cookies, spoon a little glaze on the center of the cookies, then spread it out in an even layer using the back of the spoon.
Luckily, i always write the source of recipes on my cards so i know this came from american classics by cooks illustrated, not grandma or great aunt edith or any other family member. Add egg, mix soda with molasses and add to creamed mixture. The best molasses spice cookies combine a homespun crinkled appearance with a chewy texture and a deep, gently spiced molasses flavor. In fact, the secret ingredient in molasses cookies is surprising but essential to. Molasses spice cookies with dark rum glaze cooks illustrated. The other cookie that feels like winter holidays to me is molasses cookies. See more ideas about food recipes, food and cooks illustrated recipes. Pork tinga simmered and crisped and served on tostadas with great toppings, packed with texmex flavor. I dont like cakey, puffy cookies, nor hard, crisp ones. Thats what amanda from a cookie named desire wanted when she prepared a recipe for molasses spice cookies from one of our latest releases, the perfect cookie. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger. To be honest, i was never a huge fan growing up, but it was the one time a year when we made them the are one of my dads favorite cookies. Directions adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 375f. In a medium bowl, mix together the melted margarine, 1 cup sugar, and egg until smooth.
Photos and recipe adapted from cooks illustrated jan 2002 issue to follow. Nov 03, 2014 pork tinga simmered and crisped and served on tostadas with great toppings, packed with texmex flavor. I love the richness of molasses, and coupled with ginger, cloves and allspice oh my. With notes from jack on why he adores each one, we make our way from his 10th ranking cookie to his top choice. If you find that the dough sticks to your palms as you shape the balls, moisten your hands occasionally in a bowl filled with cold water and shake off the excess. Remove pan from heat and allow to cool at least 15 minutes. As i find myself streamlining my cookbook collection, reducing much of my library to digital, this book remains on my shelf.
Halvah apple pie apple pie brownie donut cheesecake. After months in our test kitchen, and over 2,500 cookies baked, weve come up with recipes for your favorite cookies that are guaranteed to work every time. Cook s illustrated molasses spice cookies fluffy and rich winter cookies and while i could remake gingerbread cake or gingerbread cookies, as always, why not try something new. Cupcake ipsum dolor sit amet chocolate bar halvah carrot cake donut. Cooks illustrated, in its usual overthetop scientific testing of anything with their name on it, has created a true classic with baking illustrated. A cookie named desire bakes our molasses spice cookies.
One of my favorite winter desserts is a bold molasses cookie. Molasses spice cookies are sort of like ginger snaps except bigger and chewy. With their scientific approach to finding the best methods in the kitchen, their recipes are often instant classics. Apr 01, 20 using an electric mixer, beat together the butter and both sugars on mediumhigh speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Spiced ginger cookies with molasses flourishing foodie. Instead, these cookies are slightly gooey in the middle and crisp on the edges perfection in my book. The nottoosweet recipe was inspired by a molasses spice cookie from cooks illustrated. Long ago i dumped an old molasses spice cookies recipe for this one and have never looked back.
How to make cookie jar favorites brings you a collection of welltested recipes for alltime favorite cookies from chocolate. Discover foolproof recipes for all of your favorite cookies. That said, i dont think you can go wrong with either recipe if you want to make delicious molasses cookies this month. Once in awhile youll come across a recipe too fussy for the family chef, but the overwhelming majority are realistic and have a i have tried about 50 recipes from this and most i. With an oven rack in the middle position, preheat the oven to 375 degrees. I usually default to the cook s illustrated molasses spice cookies with orange essence recipe, but i decided several weeks back to try another ci recipe, for soft and chewy molasses spice cookies. Whisk flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, allspice, pepper.
Jack likes some of the more classic treats like hermits and molasses spice cookies, but he also has a taste for more adventurous cookies like millionaires shortbread and. Last year, cooks illustrated put out a great holiday baking issue, which included an article on soft, chewy molasses spice cookies. Chocolate is used three times cocoa powder and both. What i love so much about cooks illustrated is their breakdown of each ingredient, and how it relates to flavor and texture. Place 12 cup sugar for dipping in 8 or 9inch cake pan. Molasses and lemon make an unbeatable combination in these christmas treats. Ingredients 2 14 cups allpurpose flour 2 teaspoons of baking soda 12 teaspoon of salt. Browse and save recipes from cooks illustrated magazine, janfeb 2002 to your own online collection at. Place 12 cup granulated sugar on a plate or shallow baking dish. Chocolate spice, mexican wedding, coconut snowmen, almondraspberry sandwich, and cinnamon swirl cookies. I usually default to the cooks illustrated molasses spice cookies with orange essence recipe, but i decided several weeks back to try another ci recipe, for soft and chewy molasses spice cookies. Soft and chewy molasses cookies i love the richness of molasses, and coupled with ginger, cloves and allspice oh my.
That s what amanda from a cookie named desire wanted when she prepared a recipe for molasses spice cookies from one of our latest releases, the perfect cookie. An illustrated stepbystep guide to the simplest and best by cooks illustrated, john burgoyne at barnes. Our all access membership is the only place you can find every foolproof recipe, tv episode, and objective ratings and test results for cookware and supermarket ingredients from all 25 years of cooks country, americas test kitchen, and cooks illustrated. Cooks illustrated molasses spice cookies fluffy and. Dry, tasteless molasses cookies belong on a christmas tree, not in a cookie jar. Cooks illustrated recipes that work we test it all. The result was a cookie that surpassed her expectations. Americas test kitchen has almost 25 years of experience in the art and science of cookie baking, and now you can find all of that wisdom in one beautiful hardcover book. They are soft, chewy and so comforting, thanks to the warm spices cinnamon, ginger, cloves, allspice and molasses in this recipe. I watch these carefully in the oven browning just a bit around the edges enhances their flavor, but once the interiors brown they lose their moistnesschewiness and become crisp. Full recipe list the perfect cookie americas test kitchen.
Bake 1 sheet of cookies at a time until the cookies are golden brown, edges are crisp, and centers are still very slightly soft, to 16 minutes. Molasses spice cookies from cooks illustrated measure the molasses in a liquid measuring cup. Adapted ever so slightly from the new best recipes cookbook cooks illustrated. Feb 19, 20 i dont like cakey, puffy cookies, nor hard, crisp ones. Most of the molasses used in cooking and baking is made from extracted sugar cane juice that is boiled down several times.
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