Chewy Molasses Crinkles (Pg 83)

This one was a failure on my part. Or what I should say is, it was a learning experience. I used margarine instead of butter. Why? It's a long story, not worth getting into. But here's what I learned: using margarine instead of butter doesn't work in chewy cookie recipes. It works when it's a rollout cookie that has more flour, but in the case of a chewy cookie the margarine is not dense or sticky enough. The dough was wet. Quite wet. It was pretty disgusting to work with, but I powered through and got them all onto the baking sheet and baked them. They were supposed to come out thick and chewy and soft. They came out very thin, almost like a wafer, and almost crunchy, but still kind of chewy. I know that makes no sense, but if you ate one you'd understand.

But the taste....oh, the taste. Out of this world. This cookie recipe will be re-visited and made with good wholesome butter, but I would even do it again and make them with margarine and deal with the mess and ugliness because this is one darn tasty cookie. Perfect blend of sweet and spicy and just.....yes. As Rachel Zoe would say, I die. I would show you a picture of this cookie, even though it came out ugly, but it's too late because I ate them all. Within about a day. They were good.