Molasses Cutout Cookies
Soft molasses cookies I was intrigued when I saw this cookie recipe on Sprinkle Bakes' blog. I love molasses cookies and thought they would make a nice change from the traditional Christmas sugar cookies with royal icing. Especially because of the work involved in icing cookies, the price of meringue powder these days, and the fact that my family just isn't that into the taste of decorated cookies. I also wanted a chance to use my mom's cookie cutters that I inherited. These 1970's vintage impression cutters are so cute and I haven't had much success with them before. I thought this recipe might do the trick, based on the blog photos. Since there's only the 3 of us and I wasn't gifting any cookies, I decided to make only half the recipe. It turned out to be very difficult to use the impression cutters because the dough is pretty soft and the cutters are very detailed, making it virtually impossible to release the cookies. I had to scrap the Santa Claus ...