Molasses-Rye Cookies

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Pastry cook Christina Tosi calls this "the oversized flannel garment of cookies," a matrimony of rye breadstuff and a gingersnap.

The tester's cooky scoop was person to 2 1/4 ounces (a generous 1/4 cup) than the 2 3/4 ounce scoop prescribed by Tosi, but the output came retired the aforesaid (a emblematic crystal pick scoop holds astir 3 ounces of dough.) Also, the cookies are expected to cook to a "manly, leather-like brown" successful 9 to 10 minutes. But it took our tester 15 minutes to extremity up with cookies that had a chewy texture and a airy gingerbread color.

The cookies tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality successful the refrigerator for up to 1 week, oregon frozen for up to 1 month. If you privation to store the cookies astatine country somesthesia (for up to 5 days), Tosi recommends including a portion of sandwich breadstuff successful the airtight container, to assistance support them moist.

Adapted from "Milk Bar Life," by Christina Tosi (Clarkson Potter, 2015).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 18 large cookies

8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 ample egg
1 ample ovum yolk
1/3 cupful molasses
1 tablespoonful distilled achromatic vinegar
2 2/3 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
2 teaspoons caraway seed
1 spoon crushed caraway seed
1/2 spoon crushed ginger

Nutritional Facts

Per cookie

Calories
200
Fat
6 g
Saturated Fat
4 g
Carbohydrates
36 g
Sodium
210 mg
Cholesterol
35 mg
Protein
2 g
Sugar
21 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 "Milk Bar Life," by Christina Tosi (Clarkson Potter, 2015).

Tested by T. Susan Chang.

Published March 10, 2026