plantation cookies

 

If you have never tried this cook, Please do.. Yummmy !

 

1 1/2 cups plus 2 tblsp. sugar 12 tblsp unsalted butter, at room temperature 1 large egg 6 tb. sorghum or black molasses 1 cup chopped unsalted dry-roasted peanuts 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 tsp. baking soda 3/4 tsp ground ginger 1 tsp ground cinnamon 3/4 tsp. ground cloves 1/3 tsp ground nutmeg  Preheat the oven to 350*. Line 2 heavy-duty baking  sheets with foil. Using the flat beater beat 1 cup  of the sugar and all of the butter in the bowl of an electric mixer until the mixture is light in color.  Beat in the egg. Scrape down the sides of the bowl  and beat in the sorghum or molasses. Beat in ½ cup of the peanuts. In a bowl, sift together the  flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg.  Add to the dough and mix well, scraping down the  bowl at once.  In a small bowl, mix the remaining 1/2-cup of peanuts  with the remaining 1/2 cup plus 2 teaspoons of the sugar.  Scoop out the dough 2 tb at a time. Form the dough into  balls about the size of golf balls. Roll them in the peanut  and sugar mixture and place on the baking  sheets