Soft Clove Sprinkled Molasses Gingerbread

I think the best thing about cookies is once you have the core ingredients you just bunch together something else you like and you can make another cookie which is also a bad thing because it leads me to having about three million ideas I don’t have all the pictures of everything like i did for the other post… I’m still getting used to photographing everything while I’m cooking… It’ll get better… I hope

Soft Clove Sprinkled Molasses Gingerbread

2 ½ cups of All Purpose flour… Sifted

3 teaspoons ground ginger

1 teaspoon of baking soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon

Tiny pinch of nutmeg if you have it

½ teaspoon clove and some extra for sprinkling

½ teaspoon salt

¼ cup margarine

½ cup butter

½ cup white sugar

½ cup brown sugar

½ teaspoon vanilla

1 egg

½ cup molasses

Extra white sugar for sprinkling

Preheat oven to 350

Sift all dry ingredients together salt, spices, baking soda, and flour set aside

Handmix, standmix, finger mix however you can

Get the butter/margarine, and sugars in the bowl and mix till fluffed up and incorporated

Add 2 tablespoons of water and the molasses and vanilla then add the one egg mix till incorporated

Slowly mix in flour do not over mix batter just till it comes together pulling off of the sides

Now make quarter sized balls with the dough

Place them on ungreased cookie sheets

Three in a row for rows down

Press fingers on top to flatten cookies and sprinkle sugar and clove

Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes till cookies are lightly golden

Let cool

Enjoy