Molasses Cookie Cream Pies

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Molasses Cookie Cream Pies!  Satisfy your sweet tooth with these homemade spiced molasses cookies sandwiched with a fluffy, delicious vanilla buttercream filling inside! No one can resist! 

Perfectly dreamy for the holiday season when you’re craving Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies, but want the homemade version!  For more recipes like this, you’ll love these Chewy Butterscotch Oatmeal Cookies and these 24 Oatmeal Cookie Makeovers!

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These comforting Molasses Cookie Cream Pies are especially perfect for fall & winter with all the lovely flavors like ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, molasses, brown sugar, vanilla and butter shining through so deliciously.  Kids as well as adults will love these sweet treats as an afternoon snack or dessert.

They taste like Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies without the oatmeal included and we’re leaving out the preservatives for sure!  They taste like the best ginger molasses sandwich cookies with creamy frosting in each delightful bite! Wait until you taste these nostalgic soft and chewy, spiced molasses cookie cream pies!

Other Christmas cookies that have that nostalgic, homey feel you’ll want to check out are these Soft and Chewy Ginger Spiced Molasses Cookies, Soft Maple Brown Sugar CookiesSoft-Batch Buttery Oatmeal Raisin CookiesEasy Glazed Eggnog Drop Cookies and these Butter Pecan Snowball Cookies.

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Ingredients You Need for Homemade Molasses Cream Pie Cookies

Spiced Molasses Sandwich Cookies

Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

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How to Make Homemade Molasses Cream Pie Cookies

Spiced Molasses Sandwich Cookies

  1. In a medium bowl stir together flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg, and cloves. Set aside.
  2. In a large mixing bowl beat butter and brown sugar on medium speed for about 1 minute until thoroughly combined and creamy. Add molasses. Beat until combined, scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Beat in egg until. Gradually beat in flour mixture just until combined. Cover and chill dough about 1 hour or until easy to handle.
  3. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper. Roll cookie dough into small 1″ balls or by using 1 tablespoon scoop . Place about 2″ inches apart on prepared cookie sheet. Flatten balls slightly with the palm of your hand. (You can make larger sandwich cookies if you want to use a medium scoop = 1 & ½ tablespoons for larger cookies getting approx. 8 sandwich cookies, and if using 1 tablespoon, approx. 12 for smaller cookie sandwiches)
  4. Bake for 12 to 14 minutes or until edges of cookies are set, being careful not to overbake. Cool on cookie sheets for 10 minutes. Transfer cookies to a wire rack and cool completely before adding filling.

Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

  1. Using a mixer, beat butter on medium-high speed for about 3-5 minutes. This process will lighten the color of the butter and ensure you buttercream in extra fluffy.
  2. Turn the speed down to low and gradually add in the powdered sugar. Continue mixing on low speed until the powdered sugar is completely incorporated. Add in vanilla extract and milk and mix until combined.
  3. Turn mixer back up to medium-high speed and beat the mixture for an additional 3-5 minutes. If needed, add in a little more cream 1 teaspoon at a time until you reach the consistency you desire.
  4. To assemble the cookies, pipe or spread the cream filling on the flat side of half of the cooled cookies and put the remaining cookies on top.

molasses sandwich cookies

How to Easily Fill the Sandwich Cookies with Frosting

  1. The easiest way I found to put the frosting in the middle of the cookies is to add the frosting to a pastry bag with a large round tip or a zip-lock bag with a corner snipped out.
  2. Start piping from the outside of one of the cookies by tracing the cookie edge and continue working inward to the center on one of the cookies.
  3. Once the frosting has been piped on, place another cookie on top and voila…cookie sandwich complete!  You may take a bite and discover how super yummy these cream pies are!

Other Cookie Option Variations

  • You might prefer to roll the molasses cookies in coarse sugar before baking them as an option.
  • They can also be iced with a simple vanilla glaze. Simply mix a cup or more of confectioners’ sugar with a little milk until you get the glaze consistency you want.  These cookies are also great all by themselves.

Substitutions 

As a side note, if you want to take a shortcut, you can use your favorite vanilla buttercream already prepared to use if you don’t feel like making frosting, for whatever reason when you make these ginger molasses sandwich cookies. Substitute vanilla buttercream or cream cheese frosting with 2 tubs of  store-bought frosting, if you choose to side-step making the home-made frosting.

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If you’re a fan of Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies, these homemade cream pie cookies are freshly baked and amazing, with a little assembly required.  These are perfect for Christmas baking fun.  Totally addicting and scrumptiously delectable for all!  Enjoy!

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Spiced Molasses Cookie Cream Pies

Kim Lange
Wait until you taste these nostalgic soft and chewy, spiced molasses cookies sandwiched with a fluffy, delicious vanilla buttercream filling.  Perfectly dreamy for the holiday season, especially if you are a fan of the flavors of gingerbread! 
5 from 6 votes
Prep Time 20 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American, Amish
Servings 12 Sandwich Cookies
Calories

Ingredients
  

Spiced Molasses Oatmeal Cookies

  • 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • Optional: 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
  • ¾ cup butter softened
  • 1 cup packed light brown sugar
  • cup molasses
  • 1 egg
  • Optional coarse sugar for rolling cookies into before baking I liked it without, but it's a preference.

Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

  • ½ cup unsalted butter softened
  • 3 - 3 ½ cups confectioners' sugar
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 3 - 5 tablespoons milk, cream or half and half

Instructions
 

Spiced Molasses Oatmeal Cookies

  • In a medium bowl stir together flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg, and cloves. Set aside.
  • In a large mixing bowl beat butter and brown sugar on medium speed for about 1 minute until thoroughly combined and creamy. Add molasses. Beat until combined, scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Beat in egg until. Gradually beat in flour mixture just until combined. Cover and chill dough about 1 hour or until easy to handle.
  • Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper. Roll cookie dough into small 1" balls or by using 1 tablespoon scoop . Place about 2" inches apart on prepared cookie sheet. Flatten balls slightly with the palm of your hand. (You can make larger sandwich cookies if you want to use a medium scoop = 1 & 1/2 tablespoons for larger cookies getting approx. 8 sandwich cookies, and if using 1 tablespoon, approx. 12 for smaller cookie sandwiches)
  • Bake for 12 to 14 minutes or until edges of cookies are set, being careful not to overbake. Cool on cookie sheets for 10 minutes. Transfer cookies to a wire rack and cool completely before adding filling.

Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

  • Using a mixer, beat butter on medium-high speed for about 3-5 minutes. This process will lighten the color of the butter and ensure you buttercream in extra fluffy.
  • Turn the speed down to low and gradually add in the powdered sugar. Continue mixing on low speed until the powdered sugar is completely incorporated. Add in vanilla extract and milk and mix until combined.
  • Turn mixer back up to medium-high speed and beat the mixture for an additional 3-5 minutes. If needed, add in a little more cream 1 teaspoon at a time until you reach the consistency you desire.
  • To assemble the cookies, pipe or spread the cream filling on the flat side of half of the cooled cookies and put the remaining cookies on top.

Notes

Substitute vanilla buttercream with 2 tubs of  store-bought frosting if you choose to side-step making the home-made frosting.
Keyword cinnamon, classic cookies, cookies, ginger, molasses, sandwich cookies, vanilla buttercream frosting
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RECIPE adapted from Better Homes & Garden

 

 

7 Comments

  1. Oooh yes! I used to love the Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Cookie! And you’re right! These look and sound WAY better! What a great recipe, thanks!

  2. This time of the year! 🙂 I don’t use molasses throughout the year, but I always get a package or two around Christmas; this is one of quintessential seasonal flavours. These cookies look and sound wonderful; so cozy, warming, and delicious. There’s my molasses? 🙂

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