Dec 17, 2013, Updated Jul 04, 2023 The thing is, I don’t really like the flavour of molasses in sweets (in baked beans, and in bbq sauce, yes. YES!). I just find it a bit overpowering in a cookie. I recently saw a ginger cookie paired with white chocolate, and I thought, hmm… that could really work. Molasses carries bitter notes, and white chocolate is pretty tooth-achingly sweet. Molasses, meet white chocolate. White chocolate, meet molasses. What a gorgeous couple! The sticky-sweetness of white choc. totally balances off the dark complexity of molasses, and both play off the spices wonderfully. These are my new favourite chewy ginger treat. I popped the whole lot of cooled cookies into a giant freezer bag, and have been taking out a few at a time as friends drop by over the holidays.
