Grandma Clay Spice Cookies Recipes

GRANDMA ANN'S ICED OATMEAL SPICE COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Prepare cookie sheets with baking parchment or a silicone liner.
• 2. Cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in sorghum or molasses and the eggs until well blended.
• 3. Stir together the flour, salt, soda, and spices.
• 4. Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. Mix until well mixed.
• 5. Add raisins.
• 6. Fold in the oats and stir well.
• 7. Drop by tablespoons onto prepared cookie sheets. Bake for about 12 minutes, until lightly browned. Allow to set about 3 minutes on sheets, then remove to wire rack for cooling.
• 8. When cool, you can ice with royal icing. Combine icing ingredients and stir until smooth. Add a little bit more lemon juice if too thick, or more powdered sugar if too thin.
• 9. Drizzle from the end of a teaspoon over cookies. Or, place a teaspoon of icing in a dollop on each cookie and spread with the back of the spoon. Allow to harden before storing.
• 10. I also discovered some leftover packaged cookie icing in my pantry and decided to ice some of the cookies with this. You can make swirls or stripes.

GRAMMY'S SPICE COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375 degrees. Line several baking sheets with parchment paper or nonstick liners.
• Using an electric mixer, beat 12 tablespoons butter with the granulated sugar, molasses and egg until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Slowly beat in flour, baking soda, spices and salt.
• Shape dough into walnut-size balls and place 2 inches apart on baking sheets. Bake until firm, about 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool on wire racks.
• To make the icing, beat remaining 4 tablespoons butter with the confectioners' sugar until smooth. (Go slowly so you don't create a sugar storm.) Beat in the vanilla and enough cream or milk, and whiskey (if using), to make a spreadable frosting. Slather on fully cooled cookies.

GRANDMA M'S SOFT RAISIN SPICE COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar.
• Add well beaten egg.
• Sift flour and spices.
• Add raisins and nuts.
• Mix together nuts and raisins in flour.
• Slowly add flour, spice, nuts and raisins to egg, butter and sugar.
• Add quickly baking soda dissolved in hot water.
• Mix well until all liquid comes together.
• Drop from spoon on greased pan.
• Bake 10 minutes at 350. Watch, till slightly browning on the bottom edge.
• These might take a tad longer in your oven, mine cooks high. This is just a guesstimate because Grandma just had Bake as the next instruction so time and heat was a guess for me. They are nice and soft and I have double the recipe without any problems.

GRANNY'S SPICE COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, corn syrup, orange zest and cold water. In another bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger and cloves; gradually beat into creamed mixture. Divide dough in half. Shape each into a disk; wrap in plastic. Refrigerate at least 1 hour or until firm enough to roll., Preheat oven to 375°. On a lightly floured surface, roll each portion of dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut into desired shapes with a cookie cutter. Place 1 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Decorate as desired. Bake until lightly browned, 6-8 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool.