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Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies
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Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies

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Low-Fat and Low Carb flavorful cookie for the Holidays (or any time).

"Very easy cookie recipe - not super sweet, which is a welcome change. Good taste. I doubled the recipe and froze half of them. It worked well. Do eat one right out the oven - yum!"

- nancyjStephens

Cuisine: AmericanMain Ingredient: Cookies

(4.4, 10) 90% would make again (reviews)

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Ingredients

Ready in 1 hours, 30 minutes
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Servings          
Original recipe makes 24
Verified by stevemur
Nonstick cooking spray
1/3 cupButter; softened
2/3 cupbrown sugar; packed
1 teaspoonBaking soda
1 teaspoonGinger
1/2 teaspoonCinnamon
1 largeEgg
1/4 cupdark molasses
1 1/2 cupsAll purpose flour
1/2 cupWhole wheat flour
1/4 cupSugar
1 teaspoonCinnamon

Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies Preparation

1. Spray cookie sheet with nonstick spray; set aside.

2. In a large mixing bowl beat the margarine with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add the brown sugar, baking soda, ginger, and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon; beat until combined. Beat in egg and molasses. Beat in as much of the all-purpose and whole wheat flour as you can with the mixer. Stir in any remaining flour with a wooden spoon. Cover and chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

3. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Combine the granulated sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Roll balls in sugar-cinnamon mixture. Place 2 inches apart on prepared cookie sheet. Bake in a 350 degree F oven for 10 to 11 minutes or until set and tops are cracked. Remove from cookie sheet. Cool on a wire rack. Makes about 4 dozen or 24 2 cookie servings.

2 cookies are roughly 1 carb exchange

Notes

2 cookies is 1 carb and 4 are 2 carb exchanges

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Calories Per Serving: 118
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Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies Reviews

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4 months, 4 weeks, 15 hours, 46 minutes ago
1 years, 2 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, 17 hours, ago
How can these be low carb? The're made with flour, sugar, brown sugar, molasses, nothing but carbs. I'm sure they taste great but they are anything but low carb.
1 years, 2 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 14 hours, 33 minutes ago
Try adding some stem ginger chopped into little bits, for extra yummy cookies
2 years, 1 months, 4 weeks, 1 days, 20 hours, 19 minutes ago
I used butter, half the sugar and all whole wheat flour and they were delicious.
2 years, 6 months, 4 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes ago
Very easy cookie recipe - not super sweet, which is a welcome change. Good taste. I doubled the recipe and froze half of them. It worked well. Do eat one right out the oven - yum!
2 years, 11 months, 1 weeks, 6 days, 19 hours, 26 minutes ago
Easy to make and tastes delicious!
3 years, 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days, 17 hours, 32 minutes ago
made them for the nurses doing my wife's chemo. they all loved them.
3 years, 8 months, 2 weeks, 21 hours, 36 minutes ago
Easy to do and wonderful flavor.
3 years, 8 months, 2 weeks, 6 days, 22 hours, 53 minutes ago
2 cookies is 1 carb and 4 are 2 carb exchanges [I posted this recipe.]
6 years, 7 months, 3 weeks, 1 days, 20 hours, 43 minutes ago

Tags

  1. Low-fat
  2. Bake
  3. Cookies
  4. American
  5. Dessert
  6. Winter
  7. Buttery

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