OH.MY. These are the most amazing cookies ever. Perfect texture. Perfect flavor, simply perfect. I don’t know why I was surprised since they came from Grandma Gena. Grandma Gena was not my grandma but my dear friend Joy’s grandma. Grandma Gena was a truly amazing person who I thoroughly loved being around.
We actually traveled to Europe together to see Joy while she was living there – it was great fun. Grandma Gena had more spunk and energy than most people half her age and she had an amazing sense of humor. I remember being quite shocked many times when I was around her because I had never met a Grandma who would have said such things. She was great. She had this amazing ability to tell herself what time she wanted to wake and then she would go to sleep and wake up at precisely that time. Even across different time zones! We didn’t use an alarm clock the whole time we were traveling in Italy and Germany because Grandma would just get us all up. She also had this incredible ability to snore so loudly that she brought ear plugs for us. I have never heard anything like it. Play hard, sleep hard I guess…
I will write the recipe as Grandma had it, but I will warn you – as Joy warned me – you will probably want to double it. It makes a nice amount of cookies, but the rate at which you will eat them you will want the extra batch. Unless you have insane amounts of self control that it.
Then feel free to just make one batch.
I, however, do NOT have self control.
Especially when it comes to cookies. I love cookies. I am pretty sure I ate at least 10 cookies before my kids came home from school.
They are JUST.THAT.GOOD.
- ¾ cup canola oil
- ¼ cup molasses
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves
- ½ teaspoon salt
- granulated sugar for rolling
- Preheat your oven to 375˚
- In a large mixing bowl, stir together the oil, molasses, sugar and egg, set aside.
- In a medium mixing bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves and salt.
- Dump the flour mixture into the molasses mixture and mix until smooth.
- Roll into 1" balls and coat in sugar. Place on a un-greased baking sheet and bake for approximately 11 minutes.
- Allow to cool on the tray for about 5 minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
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