SHAKER SPICE COOKIE

By curly

Ingredients

• 2/3 cup oil
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 1 egg
• 2 cups flour
• 2 tsps baking soda
• 1/2 tsp ground cloves
• 12 tsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp salt

Preparation

Step 1

In mixing bowl combine oil, sugar, molasses and egg. Beat with spoon until well mixed. In another bowl combine flour, baking soda, cloves, ginger, cinnamon and salt. Stir with fork until well mixed. Add dry ingredients to oil mixture and stir until blended. This makes stiff dough.

To make 1 ½-inch round cookies use 1 tablespoon of dough per cookie. Use ice cream scoop to scoop and drop dough 2 inches apart. Or roll dough into 1 tablespoon balls by hand. Lightly press each rounded ball down on baking sheet.


Bake at 350 degrees 10 to 11 minutes. Let cookies cool to crisp. Makes 48 cookies.