• 2/3 cup salted butter at room temperature
• 1-½ cups white sugar
• 2 eggs
• ½ cup organic molasses (or fancy molasses)
• 2 tsp lemon juice
• 3-½ cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 3 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice (recipe below)
• 1 teaspoon ginger
• 1/3 tsp cardamom (optional)
• Sugar for rolling

Pumpkin Pie Spice

• 2 tbsp cinnamon
• 2 tsp nutmeg
• 2 teaspoon ginger
• 1 ½ tsp all spice

(Mix spices together in small bowl. Store in air tight container or jar with lid).

Directions
1 Preheat oven to 325° F. Cover cookie sheet with parchment paper.

2 In a small bowl mix together flour, baking soda and spices. Set aside.

3 Using stand mixer, cream together butter and sugar for five minutes, scraping sides of mixing bowl often. Add eggs, molasses and lemon juice blending well.

4 Gradually blend in dry ingredients. You may have to mix the batter by hand in order to blend ingredients well.

5 Form the dough into balls. If you have access to kitchen scale, measure dough into 25 gram balls.

6 Place about two tablespoons sugar in glass pie plate (or any kind of container). Roll dough balls in sugar.

7 Place dough balls on parchment covered cookie sheet. Flatten with fork if desired.

8 For a chewy cookie, bake for 9 minutes, allow to cool on cookie sheet five minutes.

9 Remove from sheet, allow to cool completely on wire rack.

Makes 50 cookies (25 grams dough each).