Chocolate Molasses Crinkle Cookies

Make your season bright with some dark, chewy Chocolate Molasses Crinkle Cookies. Flavored with sweet molasses and Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa then coated in sugar, these wintery cookies are wonderful.

There’s a cookie for every season and every reason. Summer day? Have a lemon cookie. Autumn day? Have a pumpkin cookie. Constipated day? Have a fiber cookie. Seriously, there’s not a snack in existence that’s more versatile. Whether you’re eating cookies for holidays or for your digestive health there’s never a wrong time. Apparently, there’s never a wrong place either.

Case in point, I’m baking a pre-dawn batch of Chocolate Molasses Crinkle Cookies this morning when my son, rushing to get ready for 6am soccer practice, grabs a cookie off the counter, takes a bite and says, “This is good, I’m gonna eat it in the shower.” In the freaking shower, people! The kid is a genius; I’ve lived for decades without knowing I can shower with a bar of soap in one hand and a cookie in the other but my son figured it out halfway through high school.

I’m going to need more loofahs, there’s a lot of lost time to make up for. Fortunately, I’m starting on a day with fresh molasses cookies in the kitchen. Rich and chewy, these chocolate crinkle cookies hold up surprisingly well under the hot spray of an overhead shower. They’re lightly spiced with cinnamon and ginger, sweetened with molasses and get a kick of chocolate from Dutch-processed cocoa powder. Keep these sparkly sugar-coated beauties on your Christmas cookie tray. And within reach of your bathtub.

Before sharing the chocolaty recipe for Molasses Crinkle Cookies, here are a few baking tips to help you out:

This recipe calls for unsulphured molasses, do not substitute blackstrap.

Always use the spoon and level method to measure flour. Scooping flour is a no-no. That technique overpacks flour into the measuring cup which will result in dry, dense cookies.

Molasses cookies are a great option for make ahead Christmas cookies. Unbaked cookie dough can be frozen up to 3 months, thaw overnight in the refrigerator before baking.

Molasses cookies make delicious bake and freeze cookies. After cookies are done baking and cooling, store in an airtight container then freeze up to 3 months.

Store these crinkle cookies in an airtight container at room temperature up to 5 days.

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Finally, if you like baking with molasses then you’ll love this recipe for Gingerbread Bundt Cake. Soft, moist and filled with the perfect mix of festive flavors, this Christmas cake is a delicious way to celebrate the season.