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Chewy molasses sandwich cookies with meyer lemon filling

January 6, 2014 Leave a Comment

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Sometimes you make something and, right away, you know it’s a winner. But often, it takes quite a bit of trial and error before kitchen experiment turns into a recipe worth keeping.

I started making molasses cookies last month, to send in holiday care packages.

I tried an online recipe so bad that, after foisting a cookie on my husband, I threw the rest of the batch out. I devised my own approach the next time around and was much happier, but then a subsequent batch turned out almost rubbery. I wondered what went wrong until much later that evening when we discovered an egg still resting on the kitchen counter.

Fortunately, I remembered the egg the next time and, after a few more adjustments, the end result was a soft, chewy molasses cookie coated with sugar for a little sweet crunch…. 

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Filed Under: Cookies, Dessert, Vegetarian, Winter Tagged With: cookies, lemon, molasses

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