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From the Recipe Creator: My family always requests these soft molasses cookies. These chewy cookies are also perfect for shipping as holiday gifts or to troops overseas. —Kristine Chayes, Smithtown, ...

The fat: Gingerbread cookie recipes generally call for a higher ratio of fat—usually, butter—than Joe Froggers do. In ...

Nancy Corrigan of Baltimore was looking for the recipe for molasses sugar cookies that was on the Brer Rabbit Molasses jar. She had it for many years but lost it in a move, and she wants to make the ...

Old-fashioned Southerners know few things are slower than molasses in winter. They also know that no matter how long it takes, pouring that molasses is worth the wait. The dark, sugar-cane syrup ...

Fall has me hankering for all things warm, aromatic and spiced. The cozy nights and even cozier cool mornings always make me salivate for mugs of chai or pumpkin spice and flavors like cinnamon, ...

Old-fashioned molasses cookies: spicy, tender and chewy on the inside, crisp on the outside, not bready, not too thin. For years I searched for the ultimate recipe. I polled friends and acquaintances; ...

A reader email asked: "How do I get a nice fluffy, cracked top molasses cookie?" Frustrated with molasses cookies that "come out very flat" even after adding a teaspoon of baking powder to the recipe, ...