You know the peanut butter cookies with chocolate kisses in the middle? The slightly salty peanut butter cookie is soft and chewy, and then hello! a sweet solid chocolate enters the center creating a perfect flavor marriage. I love those treats. Here’s my late summer wedding inspired version made with homey molasses cookies and dark chocolate cordials.
I originally posted my Great Aunt Velma’s molasses cookie recipe* when I made molasses cookies with black cherry gelato earlier this year. For this test run, I rolled the spicy dough in pink sugar (~32 cookies when you make the dough balls tablespoon size) and placed dark chocolate cherry cordials and blackberry brandy cordials in the middles as soon as they were done baking (~8 minutes in the oven). The cherry cordials have a definite ooze effect, so it may be appropriate to take a generous bite to save the spiked juices from flowing down your shirt as you crack the chocolate shell. But who said a messy surprise is such a bad thing?
*The first go ’round I failed to follow one of Aunt Velma’s footnotes: place a drop of water on the center of the dough balls before baking. They taste the same, but they seem to crackle evenly with the water droplet.
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the pink sugar works wonders – so pretty!
I agree! I like the way they look encrusted. Up close I love the pink… from far away it starts to look more orange.
excellent breakfast cookie
nice review! makes me think there needs to be a molasses bread pudding someday soon…
oooh i made your aunt velma’s cookies and they were wonderful. now i’ll have to try them with pink sugar because pink makes everything better. and the water trick. funny, i just had a friend tell me that everything works better when we get enough water. everyday.
I am glad you like the recipe! I don’t know why it took me this long to roll them in pink sugar… so happy 🙂
Oh my, these looks yummylicious! 🙂
I agree, and I have to add: foolproof to make!
Beautiful, the variable sizes of the cordials make for a good presentation…great photos, too.
thanks, PF!
Seems like I have a plan for tomorrow evening now. These look amazing!
cookies is always a fun plan 🙂
The minute I saw your photos of these tempting treats, my jaw dropped to the floor! I can not wait to try these out! 🙂
thanks, Jessica. I am still thinking about more surprise middles for these molasses guys… let me know if you have any ideas!
So sparkly and pretty! I wanna eat one up!