Molasses Crinkle Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup packed brown sugar
¾ cup shortening
¼ cup molasses
1 egg
2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
½ teaspoon ground cloves
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
¼ teaspoon ground allspice
¼ teaspoon salt
Granulated sugar
Directions:
· Heat oven to 375 degrees F.
· Mix brown sugar, shortening, molasses and egg in a mixing bowl.
· Mix in flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, allspice and salt.
· You can cover and refrigerate or wrap the dough up in parchment paper and let it sit overnight or a couple of days if needed.
· Shape dough by rounded teaspoonful into balls (or disk shape).
· Drop one side into sugar, then take out and place sugared sides up about 3 inches apart on lightly greased (or parchment paper lined) cookie sheet.
· Bake 10 to 12 minutes, depending on your oven.
· Remove immediately from cookie sheet, let cool.
