Molasses Cookies with Raisins

My mother's favorite cookie is a molasses cookie with raisins. Molasses is what makes brown sugar brown. You can even make your own brown sugar by mixing regular granulated sugar with molasses.

Whenever I bake cookies, my mother requests either these or the basic chocolate chip, but she likes these better. These are best straight from the oven with a tall glass of cold milk. I baked off a batch early in my stay home, but they disappeared within days.

Just before I came back to school to begin the new semester, I made another big batch of this dough and froze it in convenient cookie sized balls for mom to pull out and bake whenever she gets a craving while I'm not at home to make them myself (I also did this with chocolate chip for the siblings). You can do this with any cookie dough.

Yes, I am a fantastic daughter and sister. :)


We usually use a recipe found in an ancient cook book, but that recipe made cookies that were too soft. We wanted something a little chewier, so I tried a recipe I found online on a great blog.

I followed the recipe exactly, except that I added a couple handfuls of raisins.

The cookies were really good, but they did get a little dried out on the second day, so try your hardest to finish these the day you make them. Trust me, it will not be difficult!