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Can you believe it’s only two weeks left until Christmas? Time is flying by this year and before we know it, it’s going to be 2013! This year I’m really looking forward to being off for two weeks (the nice perk about working in a school!). Our family isn’t traveling anywhere this year so it’ll be nice to relax at home with family visiting us over the holidays. One tradition that we do is getting together Christmas Eve with family and friends. Our kitchen island gets filled with great appetizers, snacks and desserts while everyone shares a drink (or two!) in celebration of the holidays. Every year since I can remember we’ve always had Meat Pie on Christmas Eve. This year we decided to change things up a bit and do a spiral ham with scalloped potatoes! That’s one thing I never make, and I don’t know why, because when I have it I always wonder why we don’t have it more often!
This year I participated in The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap and I decided to make these Molasses Cookies. I received some amazing cookies as well. I got Chocolate Dipped Walnut Shortbread from Food Mamma, Raspberry Thumbprint Shortbread from The Gourmet Housewife, and Double Chocolate Espresso cookies from Savour Sisters. Please check out their blogs – you’ll be amazed at all the great talent out there! All these cookies are packed away in the freezer for the upcoming Christmas holidays! Thanks so much to all the wonderful bloggers who participated this year. I’m already thinking of ideas for next year!
Recipe slightly adapted from Lindsay Bauman via Sweet Treats & More
- 1 1/2 cups butter, softened
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup molasses
- 4 1/2 cups flour
- 4 tsp. baking soda
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
- 2 tsp. ground ginger
- 1 tsp. ground cloves
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- extra sugar for rolling *which I forgot to do!*
- 6-8 squares of White Baking Chocolate
- 1-2 tbsp. shortening
- Preheat oven to 375 F.
- In a mixer, cream together butter and sugar.
- Add eggs and then molasses until well mixed.
- In a separate bowl mix the dry ingredients together.
- Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients until well combined.
- With a cookie scoop, scoop out cookie dough and roll each ball in sugar and place about 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes.
- Let cookies cool and transfer to a wire rack.
- In a double boiler, melt white chocolate and shortening and dip one half of each cookie.
- Refrigerate cookies to set the chocolate.
- Enjoy!
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I made some dipped molasses cookies like these a little while ago and I think they’re now one of my favorite cookies! Love the sprinkles you used on yours!
Thanks Loretta! I checked out your blog today too and I can’t find a way to follow you – FB, Twitter, or Bloglovin? I did follow your Pinterest boards, though!
Thanks Lizzy!
Since my blog is new and I’m just trying to get a handle on things, I haven’t put much into other social media yet. You can always get my email updates or through RSS. Those are right in my sidebar. My next step is setting something up on Facebook…
I love Molasses cookies! I am a gingersnap, molasses cookie kinda of gal. I love that you dipped these in White Chocolate.
I’m not a white chocolate fan (or wasn’t!) but these pair perfectly! Thanks for stopping by!
I love the look of dipped cookies!
Thanks for stopping by and checking my cookies out! I’ll be stopping by your blog today too!
I am such a fan of molasses cookies and yours are so pretty. My Mom use to freeze stuff to be sure it stuck around for Christmas, but we were all on to it and we’d regularly raid the freezer. Might want to put a lock on that freezer
That lock might just be for me!
Eek, is Christmas really so close? I haven’t bought anything yet so panicking is an understatement LOL!
But enough of that, I’ll take my stress away with a whole batch of these bad boys please. I love the combo of the sweet, creamy white chocolate with the sharp flavour of the molasses. We don’t get molasses here, only treacle, which I read is *very* close to molasses. But you get so many different varieties, it’s hard to tell which variety of molasses treacle is actually close to.
They’re so pretty and festive too.
I’ve heard about treacle before and have always wanted to taste it. Some say it’s pretty similar to molasses. Maybe I’ll try baking with it and let you know!
I didn’t realise you could get treacle over there now. If you do manage to pick up some, do let me know what you think. I’d love to know for sure.
Will do Lisa!
molasses and white chocolate are an unbeatable pair! I first had the two together years ago and I revisited it last month with my white chocolate chip molasses cookies. amazing! The dipping idea and all those sprinkles. glorious! These cookies wouldn’t last long around me, that’s for sure.
I love the added touch of dipping the cookies in white chocolate!
Another fantastic white chocolate-dipped cookie
! I am sure that whoever received these cookies was very excited!
These are at the top of my ‘to make’ list. Incredible! XO
Oh these look heavenly! Love that you dipped in chocolate!
I’m totally with you – I can’t believe Christmas is so close! I’m already getting sad that Christmas music will be off the radio, lol. So you probably won’t believe me, but I’ve never had molasses cookies. I know, crazy! Maybe I’ll have to fix that with these cookies!!
Oh yummmm!! We have a cookie exchange this Saturday and these would be perfect!! I’m hosting a recipe link up today…would love you have you share!
I’ve linked up…thanks for the invite! These cookies would be perfect for your exchange!
Oh how yummy! I’d love you to come link up at my Pin Me Linky Party.
I love molasses cookies. What a great idea to dip them in chocolate!
I love the glaze they really make the cookies festive. Thanks for sharing them on foodie friday.
Oh they look delicious! I love molasses cookies anyway, but with the glaze they sound and look twice as good!
Thank you so much for sharing this at Wednesday Extravaganza – Hope to see you there again this week
These look like the perfect Christmas treat!! Love the white chocolate on them too!
Thanks Natasha! Come by anytime…and have a great weekend!
Yummy. Your cookies look fantastic! Thanks so much for stopping by the GYB Hop today! I am now following along via Bloglovin and RSS. Have a wonderful evening!
Julie
http://www.thisgalcooks.com
Thanks Julie. Will do the same!