What happens when the coziest cookie of the season meets a timeless classic? You get pure, unadulterated magic. Imagine all the warm, chewy, spiced goodness you crave in a molasses spice cookie, but with a generous handful of semi-sweet chocolate chips tossed in for good measure.. Think of these Chocolate Chip Molasses Cookies as the more sophisticated, mysterious cousin to the everyday traditional chocolate chip cookie. They’re the perfect blend of cozy spice and rich chocolate. A grown-up, more sophisticated chocolate chip cookie that will win you over at first bite.
There’s something truly magical about chocolate chips. Seriously, whatever they touch seems to turn into edible gold. And when you toss them into Molasses Spice Cookies, it’s like you’ve packed rainbows, kittens, and unexpected snow days into one single lil’ cookie bite. Earlier this year, I sent a batch of these chocolate chip-studded beauties off to B.O.B. Bob’s work, along with a few plain, unadorned Soft & Chewy Molasses Spice Cookies. Needless to say, the chocolate chip ones were the true winners. So much so that I experimented again with the recipe around Halloween, creating a batch of M&M’s Minis Halloween Molasses Spice Cookies and a batch of Cookie Monster Molasses Spice Cookies. Those, too, disappeared rather quickly. So, if you’re ever wondering what to toss into your next batch of cookies, let it always be a magical bag of chocolate chips. I’ll leave it up to y’all whether or not to go with semi-sweet, dark, milk, or white chocolate. After all, when it comes to chocolate chips, you can pretty much do no wrong. P.S. Always measure with your heart. Chocolate chip measurements are always negotiable.
Ingredients:
Cookie Dough:
- 1/2 Cup Unsalted Butter, Softened
- 3/4 Cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 Egg
- 1 Teaspoon Vanilla
- 1/4 Cup Molasses
- 2 Cups All-Purpose Flour
- 2 Teaspoons Baking Soda
- 1 1/2 Teaspoons Ground Ginger
- 1/2 Teaspoon Kosher Salt
- 1/2 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
- Pinch of Ground Cloves
- Pinch of Freshly Grated Nutmeg
Cookie Add-Ins & Add-Ons:
- 8-oz. Frozen Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together on medium speed for 2 minutes.
- Add the egg, vanilla, and molasses; mix for 1 minute on medium speed.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, ginger, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. Add a third of the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix on low until just incorporated. Repeat until all of the dry ingredients are just incorporated into the dough. Do not overmix.
- Gently fold the chocolate chips into the cookie dough.
- Use a cookie scoop to scoop the dough out onto a Silpat or parchment paper-lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 minutes.
- Allow the cookies to rest for 5 minutes before removing them to a baking rack to finish cooling completely.
Suggestions:
- When mixing the cookie dough, make sure to scrape down the bowl as needed to make sure that all of the ingredients are thoroughly incorporated.
- I suggest using frozen chocolate chips in this recipe. Adding the frozen chocolate chips to the cookie dough helps to chill down the dough and firm it up. This will help the cookies not to spread as they bake.
- 8-oz. of chocolate chips is 2/3 of a 12-oz. bag or approximately 1 heaping cup of chocolate chips.
- After you remove the cookies from the oven, gently use your fingers to press little indentations down into the top of each cookie. Gently pressing indentations into the tops of the cookies after you remove them from the oven helps to give them a bumpy and more desirable appearance.
- This recipe will yield approximately 28 cookies.
- Store the baked cookies in an airtight container between layers of wax paper.
Improvements:
- If you aren’t a fan of ground cloves or nutmeg, feel free to make these a ground ginger and/or a ground cinnamon cookie only. Simply omit the ground cloves and freshly grated nutmeg.
- Replace the semi-sweet chocolate chips with milk, dark, or white chocolate chips.
- Add chopped pecans or walnuts to the cookie dough.
- Fold roasted salted pepitas into the cookie dough for an added pop of texture and saltiness.
- CLICK HERE to check out all of our past cookie recipes. Don’t forget to check out our Christmas cookies section.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 Cup Unsalted Butter, Softened
- 3/4 Cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 Egg
- 1 Teaspoon Vanilla
- 1/4 Cup Molasses
- 2 Cups All-Purpose Flour
- 2 Teaspoons Baking Soda
- 1 1/2 Teaspoons Ground Ginger
- 1/2 Teaspoon Kosher Salt
- 1/2 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
- Pinch of Ground Cloves
- Pinch of Freshly Grated Nutmeg
- 8-oz. Frozen Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together on medium speed for 2 minutes.
- Add the egg, vanilla, and molasses; mix for 1 minute on medium speed.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, ginger, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. Add a third of the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix on low until just incorporated. Repeat until all of the dry ingredients are just incorporated into the dough. Do not overmix.
- Gently fold the chocolate chips into the cookie dough.
- Use a cookie scoop to scoop the dough out onto a Silpat or parchment paper-lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 minutes.
- Allow the cookies to rest for 5 minutes before removing them to a baking rack to finish cooling completely.
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This will be the 9th year Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck has participated in this particular Christmas Cookies Week event. Below you can find links to all of the recipes we have contributed throughout the years; however, you can also CLICK HERE to find an entire list of our past cookie recipes. Don’t be afraid to let a non-traditional cookie recipe play a role in your holiday baking this year because when it comes to Christmas cookies, variety is always a good thing. Happy baking, y’all.
2025
Soft & Chewy Molasses Spice Cookies
Chocolate Chip Molasses Spice Cookies
Buttery Oatmeal Raisin Molasses Spice Cookies
OREO Cookies & Cream Molasses Spice Cookies
Reindeer Cocoa Iced Molasses Spice Cookies
2024
Red & White Sparkling Brown Sugar Cookies
Honey Roasted Peanut Chocolate Kiss Cookies
Coconut & Dried Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies
Peanut Butter Frosted Jammy Bits Cookies
Cornmeal Dried Cranberry Brown Sugar Cookies
2023
Ginger’s Cherry Chocolate Chip Sprinkle Cookies
Sparkling Sugar Irish Butter Slice & Bake Cookies
White Chocolate Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies
Orange Mixed Berry Glazed Thumbprint Cookies
Cinnamon Powdered Sugar Panko Cookies
2022
Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Toffee Cookies
Chocolate Fudge Brownie Oatmeal M&M Cookies
Lemon Iced Gingerbread Cookies
2021
Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies with Grape Nuts
Cappuccino Swirl Butter Cookies
Dark Rum Cherry Almond Thumbprint Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cocoa Powder Cookies
Old-Fashioned Jubilee Jumbles Cookies
2020
Cinnamon Chip Holiday Spice Cake Mix Cookies
Peppermint Cream Cheese Crushed Oreo Cookies
Cran-Raisin Oatmeal Cookies with Grape Nuts
Sadie’s Double Pecan Butter Cookies
2019
Cream Cheese Red Velvet Thumbprint Cookies
Chocolate Hazelnut Winter Wonderland Cookies
Coconut Grinchy Christmas Breakfast Cookies
Soft Cinnamon Apple Pecan Cookies
Chocolate-Dipped Christmas Butter Cookies
2018
Chocolate Espresso Brown Sugar Cookies
White Christmas Peppermint Holiday Cookies
Chocolate Chip Vanilla Cookies
No-Bake Peanut Butter Cup Cereal Cookies
Whoville Christmas Wreath Sugar Cookies
2017
Crystallized Gingerbread Chocolate Chip Cookies
Mexican Chocolate Chip Crinkle Cookies
Make sure to check out all of the other great Christmas Cookies Week 2025 recipes below. A huge thanks to Jolene’s Recipe Journal for hosting this event.
- Chocolate Mint Chip Cookies by Karen’s Kitchen Stories
- Eggnog Pizzelle by Jolene’s Recipe Journal
- Chocolate Chip Molasses Spice Cookies by Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice
- Peppermint Crunch Cookies by Blogghetti
