Ingredients:
3/4 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup molasses
2 1/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp ground ginger
3/4 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/4 tsp salt
small bowl of sugar for rolling
vanilla ice cream, optional for making it into an ice cream sandwich
Directions:
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a stand mixer cream the butter and sugar.
3. Add egg and molasses and mix well.
4. Add flour, baking soda, ground ginger, cinnamon, ground cloves, and salt and mix until well combined.
5. Shape into balls and roll in a small bowl of sugar.
6. Bake for 8-10 minutes. Mine come out perfectly at 10 minutes. Cool for 2-3 minutes and then move over to a cooling rack.
These taste great fresh from the oven, but they taste even better the next day after being stored in an air-tight container. They store well in a freezer bag in the deep freeze for up to 3 months. They are super tasty the next day (after being saved in an air-tight container) served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream at the side or smooshed in between two cookies in an ice cream sandwich.
