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Moravian Cookies


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This is one of my favorite cookie recipes. You will love it too if you love the taste of ginger cookies or ginger bread. It was a big hit with my co-workers at the office and a hot item at our bake sales. When I retired, my office mate gave me a baker's roller from Pampered Chef knowing I would use it making these cookies.
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Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 cup molasses
  • 1/3 cup brown sugar
  • 3/4 tsp. ginger
  • 3/4 tsp. cloves
  • 3/4 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
  • 1/4 tsp. allspice
  • dash of salt
  • 3/4 tsp. soda
  • 3 3/4 cups plain flour (sift before measuring)

Directions:

Place the butter and molasses in a saucepan and heat until butter is melted.

Mix sugar and spices, salt and soda together and then add to the molasses and butter. Stir well. Add the flour gradually, mixing well after each addition.

Refrigerate and then set out the day you want to bake them. Let the dough come to room temperature.

Preheat the cookie sheet and spray with butter flavored cooking spray. Make balls and press them onto the warm baking sheet. Pat down with a fork until desired thickness. Or you can roll them and cut with cookie cutter. Rolling the cookies with the baker's roller.

 

Bake 6-7 minutes at 350 degrees F. I use an insulated cookie sheet so baking time can vary. Remove with spatula and transfer to cooling rack.

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Source: This recipe is from a Moravian cookbook my co-worker had. I have been baking them for about 20 years.

By littergitter from NC

Baked cookies in a box covered with Saran Wrap.
 

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August 8, 20120 found this helpful

I'm sad I don't have these in front of me right now! Will make this weekend - thank you!

 

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August 9, 20120 found this helpful

a2Sa, let us know how they turn out. I made this batch to share with some friends and I'm going to make me a batch tonight and put gluten free flour in it in place of the regular flour. I was so tempted to eat one of these but I didn't.

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I would like to add that these cookies are crisp. If you drop them on the floor, they will break. They have more flavor a day or two after you bake them and they also freeze well.

You can put the dough in the refrigerator and keep it for a week or more. I have also frozen the dough to have on hand when I needed it.

 

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August 9, 20120 found this helpful

Just bought all the ingredients today so I will be reporting back this weekend :) So happy you say they are crisp too. Bonus!

 

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August 11, 20120 found this helpful

When I open a new container of spices, I cut the seal in half and remove only half of it. This leaves an edge to top off the measuring spoon for accurate measure.

 
 

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August 11, 20120 found this helpful

I made them! They are amazing! I've never made cookies that taste like this before and I'm very impressed at how easy they are to make. They are so good.

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I made one batch crispy then another a bit softer. The softer ones I rolled into pirouettes and filled with cream. Thank you for this! :)

 

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August 11, 20120 found this helpful

I knew you would love them and I agree, they are really easy to make. You will have to do a posting and tell us how you make the pirouettes. I have rolled them up before but never thought about putting a filling in them.

 

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August 14, 20120 found this helpful

To make the cookies gluten free, use 3 1/4 cups of gluten free flour in place of the regular flour. Not quite as smooth tasting but still has that same great flavor. You can't eat just one.

 
 
August 17, 20120 found this helpful

These look like Anna's Ginger cookies that you buy in the grocery store. I love those and I'm going to make a batch of these and see if they're similar.

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Thanks for posting the recipe!

 
August 17, 20120 found this helpful

These sound delicious but I can't eat crisp foods - how can I make them so that they will stay soft?

 

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August 17, 20120 found this helpful

The directions say "press them onto the warm baking sheet." Are the baking sheets supposed to be warmed in the oven first?

 

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August 17, 20120 found this helpful

Maryeileen, I warm the baking sheets while heating the oven. It makes the dough easier to pat down thin. I use two baking sheets. While one is baking, I am preparing the other one to go into the oven.

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Brandedlady, I am sorry but these cookies are crisp. To eat them soft, you could dunk them in coffee or milk which is quite tasty.

 

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