With the Instant Pot, making this traditional French toast recipe is a breeze. You’ll need a trivet and a small baking pan because it uses the pot-in-pot technique. Fruit and syrup should be served.
| Servings: | 30 |
| Yield: | 5 dozen |
Ingredients
- ¾ cup butter flavored shortening
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup molasses
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
Instructions
- Cream together until light and fluffy butter flavored shortening and brown sugar. Add egg and molasses and beat well. Sift together flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, ground cloves and ginger. Add to creamed mixture and mix well.
- Chill at least 1 hour or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- Roll into 1-inch balls, roll in sugar. Place balls 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes. Cool slightly before removing from pan.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 117 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 16 g |
| Cholesterol | 6 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 1 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1 g |
| Sodium | 109 mg |
| Sugars | 9 g |
| Fat | 6 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
One word : delicious!!
Good recipe. I used sorghum molasses and substituted 1/2 C butter 1/4 C margerine for the shortening.
This is the best Molasses Cookie recipe! It should have many more 5 star ratings. Soft, moist, chewy and fragrant with spices. I use 1/4 c. butter with 1/2 c. shortening. You get that little boost of butter flavor but you still have a soft cookie that literally melts in your mouth. I use 1/2 the amount of cloves just for personal taste. I make this all year for my husband but am now back to make a 4x batch so I can send out for Christmas. Make this cookie! You will love it!
I made a full batch and they didn’t last through the day!
Different from the ones I used to make but very delicious. Will be saving this recipe for a later date.
These are delicious. I followed the recipe except for adding some finely chopped candied ginger after baking a “test cookie”. Baked that one without chilling the dough and it worked fine. Didn’t spread too much and developed a nice crackle. Those baked after the dough chilled spread about the same amount and did not crackle as much. I rolled mine in Sparkling Sugar before baking and they are beautiful.
I used 1/4 Lard 2/4 Becel Margerine. Other than that I followed recipe exactly. Rolled them in sparkly white sugar. Omg they are good
Made these because i miss the molasses cookies i had as a child. They are great, even a few finiky friends like them. I make 12 and roll the dough into balls and freeze. This way I don’t eat them all in one or two days.
This recipe has become a favorite with my husband. He loves them and I think they are pretty awesome too!!
This is a favorite with my grandsons. The only changes I made was to use plain shortening instead of butter flavor and in addition to rolling them in white sugar, I dipped the tops in large-crystal sanding sugar for extra sparkles.
Used butter instead of shortening and pumpkin pie spice instead of cloves, ginger and cinnamon (3 tsp) because that’s what I had available, worked well
I made these and they were fantastic! I used butter in place of shortening and the cookies turned out great. I will be using this recipe all holiday season long.
THESE ARE AWESOME!!!! I didn’t chill the dough… didn’t have time… and had very, very little spreading. Also used butter, not shortening. Thanks for the recipe. AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!
Loved this recipe, but I used butter instead of shortening and increased the flour to 2 1/2 cups. I also chilled the dough before cooking.
These are delicious!! I had a different recipe that didn’t add the cinnamon, ginger and clove…I won’t be making that one anymore!
These are absolutely the best cookies I’ve ever made! I did use 1/2 c butter and 1/4 c shortening, just because that was what I had on hand, and they turned out great! They were supposed to be a gift but we are most of them!
Amazed at how much I LOVED these since I’m not always a big molasses girl, but woah!
Very good!!! I had to hide them from my boyfriend!
great great great
Big success! I substituted butter for shortening. The cookies were very flavorful and totally hit the spot with my family. Will make again!
These were great cookies! It made too much dough for just DH and I, so I wound up freezing quite a bit, but besides that really delicious. Butter is so expensive around here, and its so nice to find a recipe using shortening that actually works! My whole house smelled like fall.