Molasses Clove Cookies

Impressed by Dancing Deer’s Molasses Clove cookies and adapted from my Full Chewy Complete Wheat Oatmeal Cookies.

Existing: I exercise King Arthur White Complete Wheat flour for this recipe. I love it. I judge it is probably you’ll perhaps perhaps replace it for all-cause flour, whereby case, decrease the butter to 2 sticks. —mrslarkin

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350º F. Line 2 or 3 heavy-responsibility cookie sheets with parchment paper. (I will match 8 cookies to a sheet pan, as my pans are reasonably mammoth, so I exercise 2 sheet pans.)
2. Utilizing a stand mixer, cream collectively butter and sugars on medium/low tempo for 3 minutes. On low tempo, add the molasses, then the salt, spices, and baking soda.
3. Add eggs one at a time at medium/low tempo and beat unless truthful blended. Jam down the perimeters of the bowl.
4. Add flour and mix on low tempo unless integrated, then combine at medium tempo for 10 seconds to be positive all of the spices are integrated.
5. Utilizing a mammoth cookie scoop, scoop dough balls which are about 3 oz. each (smaller than a tennis ball, however larger than a ping pong ball). With your fingers, roll dough into balls to nonetheless the edges.
6. Roll tops of cookie dough balls in turbinado sugar in a shallow bowl and station sugar-facet-up 2 inches apart on parchment-lined cookie sheets. Press balls very gently with the motivate of a fork or your fingers to a shrimp flatten. (I exercise a flat-bottomed, 3 journey-huge measuring cup to press the dough unless or not it is about 2 inches huge and 1 journey high.)
7. At this point, cookies would possibly perhaps well even be frozen and baked off at a later time. Trouble them within the freezer on the parchment-lined baking sheets overnight or for several hours. (I desire this freezing plot as I’m pleased it produces a chewier cookie, however I could perhaps well perhaps moreover truthful be imagining all of it.)
8. Bake the cookies, both frozen or unfrozen, for 16 minutes (will must you is more likely to be baking from frozen, remember that they must be positioned a couple of inches apart). Rotate the pans motivate-to-front and top-to-bottom after the first 8 minutes, then return to oven for 8 extra minutes and start checking for doneness. Bake for no larger than 18 minutes — will must you over bake the cookies, they’d perhaps perhaps not be chewy. Remove your cookies when the edges feel region and the centers feel not reasonably accomplished. I on the full pull my cookies on the early facet, as they continue to cook as soon as eliminated from the oven. I have not tried these in a shrimp size, however will must you pause, bake them for much less time.
9. When accomplished, take a ways from oven, and spin the cookies, parchment and all, onto a cooling rack.
10. Retailer cooled cookies in an airtight cookie jar or sealed plastic rep. They cessation chewy for days.