Soft, chewy and delicious this old fashioned Brown Sugar Cookie Recipe bakes up tender, sweet cookies that are stuffed with your favorite jam or jelly!
Just like this chewy Butterscotch Cookie Recipe this one of our favorite family recipes!
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Why you'll love this recipe
No white sugar?
Water?
Hmmm...
But I thought I'd bake them up, just like her notes because there's obviously something I'm missing.
And Grandma was right!
These cookies are soft and chewy, full of molasses-ee sweetness from the dark brown sugar.
This recipe has been in our family for almost 200 years - this is my Great, Great, Grandma Josephine's Recipe and I'm honored to share it with you!
What I loved best is that such a simple cookie could be so perfectly delicious!
Ingredients
- brown sugar - makes moist, tender cookies
- butter - shortening or butter also helps keeps cookies moist
- eggs - helps ingredients to bind together and makes cookies chewy
- flour - depending upon the amount in a recipe can make the cookies crunchy or chewy
- salt - keep the sweetness from taking over and balances the flavors
- cinnamon - adds flavor and balances with the molasses in the cookies
- vanilla - more flavor - delicious!
- baking soda - helps the cookies rise
- jam - for a sweet surprise in the middle!
Instructions
- Allow the sugar to come to room temperature.
- Sift together the flour, baking soda, salt
and cinnamon - set aside. - In a mixer cream the eggs, brown sugar, butter, water
and vanilla. - Add the dry ingredients, mix well.
- Drop by spoonfuls onto a greased baking sheet.
- Make a dimple in the middle of the cookie.
- Drop a teaspoon of jam into the middle of each cookie.
- Top with another small spoonful of dough.
- Bake until golden brown.
FAQ's
When you only use brown sugar in a cookie it bakes soft and moist. Using only brown sugar makes for a chewier cookie!
It's brown because it's flavored with sweet molasses. It's what keeps the sugar moist and super sweet!
Light brown sugar and dark are interchangeable in this recipe, but I like that extra bit of flavor you get from dark in this recipe! If light is what you have, then go for it - either way you won't be disappointed!
Either will work - unless it specifies one or the other, they are interchangeable.
Things to know
Don't crowd the cookies on the baking sheet as these cookies spread while baking.
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Brown Sugar Cookie Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 3 ½ cups flour
- 1 cup butter softened
- 3 eggs
- ½ cup water
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
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Instructions
- Allow the sugar to come to room temperature.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, prepare baking sheet - lightly spray - set aside.
- Sift together the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon - set aside.
- In a mixer cream together eggs, brown sugar, butter, water and vanilla.
- Add the dry ingredients, in two separate batches until well combined, scraping down the side - mix well.
- Drop by spoonfuls onto a greased baking sheet, leaving plenty of room between the cookies as they spread shile baking.
- Make a dimple in the middle of the cookie. Drop a teaspoon of jam into the middle of each cookie.Top with another teaspoon of dough.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown
Notes
- Be sure to leave plenty of room between the cookies as they spread while baking.
- Simply drop a teaspoon of dough on top of the jam, no need to try and seal the dough over the jam.
Amy Nash
I love these old-fashioned cookies! They are so, so homey and delicious!
Bowl Me Over
Thank you Amy!
Nikki
Made these over the weekend and they didn't last long! So good!
Bowl Me Over
I'm so glad you enjoyed them Nikki - these soft chewy cookies are so good!!
Kylee from Kylee Cooks
We made these today (Sundays are for baking, in my house). We all ADORED these - there are none left, and I only made them today. Going to double next time.
Bowl Me Over
That's awesome Kylee! I'm glad they were such a hit!!!
Michaela Kenkel
These brown sugar cookies just went straight to the top of my must bake list!!
Bowl Me Over
They are sooo yummy, enjoy!
Debi
I've always thought that brown sugar made better cookies than white sugar. These look so delicious & I loo forward to eating them.
Bowl Me Over
I have never made a cookie with just brown sugar - what a difference!!
Julie Menghini
I love this cookie. If I was to write a cookbook it would be called dark brown sugar.... I love this recipe and can't wait t add them to my regular baking recipes!
Bowl Me Over
You will love them Julie - they are amazing!
Brandi Burgess
Old fashioned cookies are ALWAYS the best! These did NOT disappoint! We loved them!
Bowl Me Over
Wonderful!! I'm glad you love them as much as we do!!
Michelle Turner
Hey, I had an Aunt Josephine too (not a Great Aunt, but a GREAT AUNT). They look delish. Will try them.
Bowl Me Over
GREAT Aunt's are the BEST, right? Enjoy these yummy cookies Michelle!