Joe Frogger Cookies

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These egg-free molasses cookies are made and sold astatine the National Museum of African American History and Culture's Sweet Home Cafe. The cafe's supervising chef, Albert Lukas, says they were archetypal served successful a Marblehead, Mass., tavern tally by freeman Joe Brown, whose woman made them arsenic large arsenic the lily pads that frogs sat connected successful a pond extracurricular the restaurant.

You’ll request a 3-inch circular cooky cutter.

The dough is rather brushed and needs to beryllium refrigerated astatine slightest overnight and up to 1 day. The cookies tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality for up to 1 week.

Adapted from a look developed by Albert Lukas, supervising cook astatine the Sweet Home Cafe successful the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 24-30 large cookies

  • 1 cupful (340 grams) unsulfured molasses
  • 1/3 cupful (80 milliliters) water
  • 2 1/2 tablespoons acheronian rum
  • 3 1/2 cups (438 grams) all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons good oversea salt
  • Generous 1 1/4 teaspoons crushed ginger
  • 1 spoon baking soda
  • 1/2 spoon crushed cloves
  • 1/2 spoon crushed allspice
  • Generous 1/4 spoon freshly grated nutmeg
  • 8 tablespoons (1 stick/113 grams) salted butter, astatine country temperature
  • 1 cupful (200 grams) granulated sugar, positive much for rolling

Nutritional Facts

Per cooky (based connected 30)

  • Calories

    140

  • Fat

    3 g

  • Saturated Fat

    2 g

  • Carbohydrates

    26 g

  • Sodium

    380 mg

  • Cholesterol

    10 mg

  • Protein

    2 g

  • Sugar

    15 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from a look developed by Albert Lukas, supervising cook astatine the Sweet Home Cafe successful the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Tested by Vanessa Williams and Kara Elder.

Published September 22, 2016

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Updated March 15, 2026

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