I thought I had already tasted the best molasses cookie ever made. My mother made excellent Molasses Cookies and Molasses Crinkles have always been a family favorite!
Both cookies are cookies I have been baking for years and years. Cookies I grew up loving. Molasses Cookies I just could not get enough of!
I did not think you could get any better than those. That is until now. Today I baked the best molasses cookies I have ever eaten. The BEST! (Sorry to shout! But I can't help myself!)
I recently purchased a cookbook entitled Smitten Kitchen Keepers, by Deb Perelman. It is filled with loads of tasty sounding and looking recipes that beg you to try them.
I adapted this cookie recipe from the one found in that cookbook. It's marvelous and if this recipe alone is any indication of the quality of the remaining recipes in the book, I am in for loads of treats!
These cookies are soft and chewy in the middle and crispy coated with sugar on the outsides. They are spiced beautifully with a wonderful mix of the warm baking spices.
The smell of them baking alone is enough to get your tastebuds tingling and I can promise you, your house will smell beautiful while they are baking!
I did make a few adaptations to her recipe, but they worked beautifully. First I added some ground cardamom to the spice mix. I have always found that ground cardamom works very well in any k...
