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Soft Molasses Cookies
Molasses cookies are more popular in my little family than chocolate chip cookies. While I do have a couple of kiddos who are chocolate lovers, molasses cookies are definitely loved by all. The spices and flavors bring me to a younger time and back into my mom’s kitchen. My kid brother insisted we call them Gopher Bottom Cookies instead because molasses has a swear word in it. Then my dad would tell a dad joke that went something like this… A family moles were out for a walk and they came upon a hole. One went in to check it out, then another, and another. The last mole came out…
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GG Gladys’ Molasses Cookies
I distinctly remember the cookie jar filled to the brim every time we’d visit Grandma’s home. She loved to bake, and was damn good at it…pies, cakes, jello salads…okay, jello doesn’t involve baking. Her molasses cookies are a definite favorite among her posterity. When my genius of a brother was about 5 years old, he became rather distraught and proclaimed we shouldn’t swear and that molasses was a swear word…mole-asses (my powers of deduction was definitely not nearly that advanced at age 5). So from then on, we were to call molasses cookies gopher bottom cookies…over 20 years later, Gopher Bottom Cookies is the proper name in our household. The…
