Frosted cremes-molasses cookies

[Beverly]

Has anyone heard of a molasses cookie named "frosted cremes? It is a drop cookie with a white frosting topped with a whole pecan. My grandma made these when I was little.

[schmookette]

I found this online....

Ginger Creams
This cookie really is from an old family recipe, but because we got it through sharing, I suppose it's OK to share it with other people. If I remember the story correctly, my grandma went to pay their rent--this must have been back in the 50s sometime, early 50s--and their Hungarian landlady was baking these, and they smelled so good that Grandma asked for the recipe. So here we are. Even if I've botched the story, the cookies are fabulous and the family really has been making them for decades.

EDIT: slight change to icing now. I double-checked and the story is correct, too.



Preheat oven to 400 F

In a large bowl, cream together:

1 C shortening (I used butter)
1 C sugar
1 egg
1 C molasses

In a separate bowl, sift together:

4 C sifted flour
1/2 t salt
2 t ginger
1 t nutmeg
1 t cloves
1 t cinnamon

Put this in with the first ingredients and mix slightly. It doesn't need to be smooth; just work them together a bit.

In a small bowl or cup, dissolve:

2 t baking soda
in
1 C hot (not boiling--tap is fine) water

Empty all of this into the other ingredients and mix thoroughly until smooth. The dough is very soft and comes together quickly.

Drop by tablespoons (mine were more like two tablespoons) onto a cookie sheet and bake for 8 minutes. Cool on wire rack.

The following icing is optional, and can be drizzled over the top of the cookies, preferably while still warm.

Mix:

3 t powdered sugar
1/2 t vanilla

Slowly add milk until the mixture is smooth and fairly thin. It's a glaze, not a frosting.

Oven temps may vary slightly; I wound up baking mine at closer to 375 because the first pan got very brown on the bottom.

Make approximately eleven million cookies.

[Tina]

That sounds awesome! Thanks for sharing!