These chewy sugar cookies have a delicious twist – I added some of my favorite fall flavors including molasses, ginger, cloves, and cinnamon.

These easy to make rolled cookies were a hit at my latest book club and holiday party! 

This recipe is part of The Sweetest Season, an annual virtual cookie swap co-hosted by Erin of The Speckled Palate and Susannah of Feast + West. Every year, food bloggers get together to share new holiday cookie recipes to make and give.

This year we are raising money for Cookies 4 Kids’ Cancer, which is a recognized 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to funding research for new, innovative and less-toxic treatments for childhood cancer.

Since 2008, Cookies for Kids’ Cancer has granted nearly $18 million to pediatric cancer research in the form of 100+ research grants to leading pediatric cancer centers across the country. From these grants have stemmed 35+ treatments available to kids battling cancer today.

Help us raise money for this important cause! Donate through our fundraising page.

Another exciting thing is that Cookies for Kids’ Cancer is in a matching window with their friends at OXO, meaning OXO will be matching every dollar raised through the end of 2025, up to $100,000. Whatever money we raise will automatically double on our fundraising page!

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Molasses Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

• ¾ cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• ¼ cup molasses
• 1 egg
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 2 cups flour
• ½ tsp ground cloves
• ½ tsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ½ tsp salt

Instructions

• Melt butter over low heat.
• Cool, add sugar, molasses, and egg.
• Beat well.
• Sift together flour, soda, cloves, ginger, cinnamon, and salt, add to first mixture.
• Mix well and chill.
• Form the dough into 1-inch balls and roll them in sugar.
• Place on a greased cookie sheet 2 inches apart and bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes.
• Cool on a wire rack.

Notes

Recipe by Lucy Burdette from "An Appetite for Murder".

Melt butter over low heat then cool and add sugar, molasses, and egg.

Mix well.

Sift together flour, soda, cloves, ginger, cinnamon, and salt, add to first mixture.

Mix well and chill.

Form the dough into 1-inch balls

…and roll them in sugar.

Place on a greased cookie sheet 2 inches apart and bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes.

About Cookies for Kids’ Cancer:

Cookies for Kids’ Cancer is a recognized 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to funding research for new, innovative and less-toxic treatments for childhood cancer. Since 2008, Cookies for Kids’ Cancer has granted nearly $18 million to pediatric cancer research in the form of 100+ research grants to leading pediatric cancer centers across the country. From these grants have stemmed 35+ treatments available to kids battling cancer today.

Fast Facts:

Cancer is the #1 cause of death by disease of children in the U.S.
More than 40,000 U.S. children are actively battling cancer right now.
The average age of a child diagnosed with pediatric cancer is 6.
The combined 12 major groups of pediatric cancers receive 4% of the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) federal budget.
2/3 pediatric cancer patients will develop long-term side effects, many life-threatening—a result of the treatments that “cured” them.
Cookies for Kids’ Cancer is committed to funding research for new, improved and less toxic treatment options for kids.
There are 300,000+ new cases of cancer affecting children worldwide annually. That’s more than 800 new kids affected every day.

Cookies for Kids’ Cancer is in a matching window with their friends at OXO, who will be matching every dollar raised through the end of 2025, up to $100,000.

Whatever money we raise will automatically double on our fundraising page!

Help us raise money for this important cause! Donate through our fundraising page.

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