Retro Molasses Biscuits
Retro molasses biscuits are crunchy on the outside with a chewy cinnamon-sugar coating and soft on the inside. Try this recipe and you will be surprised how easy and simple it is! My Retro Molasses Biscuits recipe is easy, quick, and healthy and calls for simple ingredients. Infuse your home with a warm biscuit fragrance; the house is filled with a fragrant autumnal bouquet of cinnamon, clove, and orange when baking these biscuits. And as the autumnal weather begins to take hold, celebrate the Autumnal Equinox by baking retro molasses biscuits.
Servings Prep Time
70biscuits 5minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
20minutes 20minutes
Servings Prep Time
70biscuits 5minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
20minutes 20minutes
Ingredients
For the biscuits
Retro cinnamon sugar coating
Instructions
  1. Wash and thoroughly dry the orange before zesting. Juice the orange after you have zested it. Pour the juice into a large cup. Set the zest aside.
  2. In a medium bowl combine the flour with the baking powder, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, salt and zest. Set aside.
  3. Add the baking soda into the cup with the orange juice and mix thoroughly.
  4. Pour the olive oil, wine and grape molasses into a large bowl. Add the fizzling orange juice and mix well. Little by little add the solids to the liquids. Place plastic wrap over the bowl. Let the dough rest before shaping and chill in the fridge for 20′.
  5. Preheat the oven to 180°C (356°F) and line two large baking sheets with parchment paper. Combine cinnamon and sugar in a small bowl in order to create crunchy on the outside biscuits with chewy cinnamon sugar coating.
  6. Take lumps of biscuit dough and roll them into 70-80 walnut-sized balls. Gently pat each dough ball flat with your fingers. Toss them through the cinnamon sugar so that they are fully coated. Place the biscuits on the baking sheets.
  7. Bake the biscuits for 15-20′, or until they are golden-brown. Bear in mind that the amount of time that you will need to bake the biscuits depends on the shape of the biscuits and the temperature of the oven.
Recipe Notes

Tea pairing: Retro Molasses Biscuits & Saffron Tea with Cinnamon and Clove

For the tea lovers and fanatics who passionately seek tea and biscuit pairings and yearn to explore the dynamic between flavours and aromas, I firmly recommend that you indulge in a cup of herbal saffron tea with cinnamon and clove and retro molasses biscuits: this exotic tea and these retro molasses biscuits complement each other perfectly.

You can make saffron tea with cinnamon and clove by adding 3 threads of saffron, a small cinnamon stick and a whole clove into a cup filled with hot water.

The increasing sophistication of tea drinking and tea culture calls for the perfect tea and biscuit pairing: saffron has an earthy, yet sweet, flavour which enhances the sweet citrus notes in these biscuits. This exotic saffron tea with its uniquely sensual aroma of cinnamon and clove has a naturally sweet taste and goes wonderfully well with these autumnally spiced biscuits.

Retro Molasses Biscuits