Recipe Wednesday: Molasses Crackles

In addition to my daily prayers for parents to say with their children, I've decided to TRY to do a blogpost named Recipe Wednesday where I will post a different recipe each Wednesday.  We'll see how far this goes before I run out of recipes.  Today's recipe is Molasses Crackles and Mr. Man put it best when he looked over my shoulder as I typed this out and said, "mmmmm Molasses Crackles," in that deep throaty voice that says yum.  These cookies not only taste good, they keep fresh forever (upwards of 2-3 weeks) and you can freeze them for up to 3 months (good luck keeping them around for that long).


*Dough must chill at least 2 hours though overnight works also*
3 sticks of melted butter (yes that is what makes these so delicious)
2 cups of white sugar
1/2 cup Brer Rabbit Molasses (yes the brand makes a difference)
2 fork whipped eggs
4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
3 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
4 cups of flour

Place melted butter, sugar, and molasses in a Large bowl and mix.  Let the mixture cool slightly while beating the eggs.  Add eggs, STIR, baking soda, STIR, salt, STIR, cinnamon, STIR, and nutmeg, STIR.  Add 1 cup of flour, STIR, 1 more cup of flour, STIR, 1 more cup of flour, STIR, and 1 more cup of flour, STIR.  The dough will be very stiff so hunker down and put some elbow grease in that stirring.

Cover and Refrigerate

Preheat oven to 350.  Roll dough into balls and coat with sugar, then place on a GREASED cookie sheet.  Bake for 10-12 minutes.  Let cool a couple of minutes on the sheet and then completely cool on a wire rack.

Again, I warn you, these cookies are amazingly delicious and highly addictive.