Molasses Spice Cookies With Toasted Marshmallow
- 2 cups and 2 tbs. all-purpose flour, plus extra for rolling out dough
- 14 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice (or 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon, and 1/2 tsp. each of ginger, nutmeg and allspice)
- 12 teaspoon salt
- 34 cup softened unsalted butter
- 14 cup sugar
- 13 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 tablespoon dark molasses
- 1 lb marshmallows, fluff
- 1 small candy, for eyes
- Mix the flour, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice, and salt together in a medium bowl.
- Beat the butter and sugar together with an electric mixer.
- Add the rest of the wet ingredients while it mixing.
- Then scrape the bowl and add the flour mixture a little at a time.
- Once the dough has come together, divide it onto two pieces of plastic wrap.
- Wrap the dough into two disks and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
- Remove one disk from the fridge.
- Flour a work surface and roll it out to between 1/8 -1/4 inch thick.
- Cut out the cookies as close together as possible.
- Use a spatula to transfer the cookies to parchment paper-lined cookie sheets.
- The dough is fragile, so if you lose an appendage, gently press it back together.
- Remember, fragile dough = light tender cookies.
- Gather the leftover dough and repeat.
- Try to get as many cookies cut out of two rolls on each disk.
- The more you gather and re-roll, the tougher the dough gets!
- Bake for 10-15 minutes.
- Allow to cool.
- Raise the oven rack to the highest position and turn on the broiler.
- Using a piping bag, or a freezer bag with the corner cut off, spread the marshmallow fluff over each cookie.
- The goal is to get a smooth layer about a 1/3 the thickness of the cookie.
- If you add too little is will get bumpy when you toast it, and if you add too much, it will run off.
- I used about a tablespoon per puppy cookie.
- The marshmallow fluff will smooth out after a minute or two.
- To create the effect of an ear, place one more dollop of fluff on the head, right before you place the cookies under the broiler.
- Toast the cookies under the broiler for about 30 seconds.
- DO NOT take your eyes off them!
- Marshmallow fluff burns fast!
- Once the come out, quickly add the eyes to your puppies!
flour, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice, salt, butter, sugar, brown sugar, egg, vanilla, dark molasses, marshmallows
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/molasses-spice-cookies-with-toasted-marshmallow-443643 (may not work)