Molasses Cookies

Delicious and nutritious - lots of iron.  Dmitri likes to make them, too.

Spicy Molasses Cookies 

(from Pioneer Woman)

1 cup sugar
3/4 cup butter
1/4 cup molasses (blackstrap preferred)
1 egg
2 cups flour
2 1/2 tsps baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon (heaping)
1 tsp ginger (heaping)
1/2 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp cardamom
1/4 tsp salt (pinch)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine sugar, butter, molasses and eggs.  Add dry ingredients.

Roll dough into walnut-sized balls, roll each in sugar.  Bake for 9-11 minutes, baking for about a minute after the cookies begin to crack (I baked them until slightly browner).

Can also add some mace or allspice for even more flavor.