Soft Molasses Cookies

A recipe found by Grammy Marge (Gram Cook) long ago.  Our family liked it so much, we never bothered with another soft molasses cookie recipe!  – Jeanne 

Ingredients

• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, melted
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup molasses
• 1 egg
• 5 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons ginger
• ¼ teaspoon clove
• ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 4 teaspoons baking soda
• ¾ cup coffee

Instructions

1. Mix together butter, sugar and molasses. Add in egg.
2. Sift together flour, ginger, clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, salt and baking soda.
3. To the butter mixture, alternate mixing in coffee and dry ingredients. Mix well.
4. Make day before and chill overnight. 
5. Preheat oven to 375° F.
6. Roll out dough to 1/4-inch thick.  Using a large cookie cutter, cut out cookies and place onto a parchment lined cookie sheet.
7. Bake at 375° for about 14 minutes. Allow to set a few minutes before removing from sheet and finish cooling on a wire rack.  Makes about 70 cookies. 

Note

• This dough is much easier to handle if it is really kept chilled.  I usually take out just enough dough to roll out at one time and put the leftovers back in the fridge to chill until I am ready to use it again.  Otherwise, the dough is too sticky to handle.