Old Fashioned Soft Molasses Cookies 

Old Fashioned Soft Molasses Cookies are full of spice and robust molasses flavor. We make molasses cookies with shortening every yeat! GET THE RECIPE

Ingredients

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Mix Dry Ingredients

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Mix Wet Ingredients

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Old Fashioned Soft Molasses Cookies

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Molasses Cookies with Shortening

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Rolling Molasses Cookies in Sugar

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Baking Old Fashioned Soft Molasses Cookies

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Soft Molasses Cookies For the Holidays

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