Soft Molasses Cookies

Here is this weeks baking experiment, Soft Molasses Cookies. I was looking for a recipe for the soft molasses cookie with icing like you can buy at the grocery store. I did not find one that looked good, so I made these. I substituted butter for of shortening. Yum! And while they are not exactly what I had originally wanted, they were very tasty. So tasty in fact that while I was up in the night with baby, I realized I had a stomach ache from eating too many.

And yes, those are indeed my Christmas dishes. I got them out this morning. Cannot. Wait. This. Year!