Our Cookbook Blog

Our Cookbook ~ What We Cook, is a compilation of every recipe we (Janice and Carissa) cook - recipes from our cookbook collections, our recipe boxes, and our heads! We set up this blog for friends and family who have our cookbook to let them see pictures we post of the recipes in the book, and also for us to note any corrections, revisions, or additions to What We Cook. We encourage people who are cooking our recipes to let us know how the recipes turn out and any suggestions they might want to make.

In addition, we will be sharing some of our new recipes (along with pictures) that are not in our cookbook. We hope you will help us out and test recipes and give us your comments.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Molasses Spice Cookies ~ page 212

I made these for Adam's birthday today. He loves anything that has molasses in it, so these are right up there on the list!

I hate surprise "clumps" of baking soda, baking powder or spices in cookies, so I just have a habit of always measuring all spices and such in a sieve, so that there are no chunks.

I always wrap my cookie dough that is going in fridge to chill in saran wrap. Mixing bowls covered with plastic wrap take up too much room and the wrap never stays in place anyway. I have a HUGE box of saran wrap from Costco that is a lifesaver...one box lasts me years! I've been eyeing the huge box of foil that Costco sells also...but I have no more room in the pantry.
Here are the little guys waiting their turn to go into the oven...then below, what they look like baked. Very yummy! Give them a try. I baked mine about 8 minutes, but my oven is a little fast. --Carissa






1 comment:

Carissa said...

My Aunt Lorrie emailed me asking if this was a soft cookie, so I thought I'd describe them for everyone. They are soft, not crunchy. I suppose you could cook them longer and experiment making ginger snaps. But the way I make them they are soft and chewy.