Recipes with molasses

Montessori muffins made with whole wheat flour, molasses, and chopped prunes. No refined sugar, just earthy sweetness from molasses and fruit. A wholesome, kid-friendly muffin with real ingredients.

Joe Frogger cookies from Marblehead, Massachusetts with molasses, rum, ginger, cloves, and nutmeg. Oversized, crackle-topped New England cookies with maritime history.

Made with sour milk and molasses, this moist, delicious bread just might make you become lucky!

Bread machine brown breakfast bread, a whole-wheat quick bread sweetened with honey and molasses, studded with raisins, and warmed with ginger, cinnamon, and allspice. Hands-off breakfast loaf.

Sweet potato and apple casserole glazed with molasses butter and topped with brown sugar and pecans. A Thanksgiving-worthy side dish baked until bubbly and caramelized.

This was a wonderful loaf of gingerbread. It was delicious.

Bread machine whole wheat millet bread blends whole wheat, bread flour and millet flour with toasted bran and molasses. Hearty, high-fiber and hands-off. Press start and walk away.

Bimini bread for the bread machine: a soft, slightly sweet Bahamian-style loaf with rolled oats and molasses for warmth and chew. Eight ingredients, perfect for sandwiches and toast.

Soft, spiced ginger cookies using prune butter to replace fat. Crackled sugar-coated tops with chewy centers, perfect for guilt-free snacking.

Hearty pumpernickel with shredded wheat bran cereal, rye flour, and caraway. Extra fiber and texture make this darker, chewier version perfect for wholesome sandwiches and toast.

A tasty beans dish made with dried pinto beans, black beans and lima beans.

A dark, earthy bread machine pumpernickel made with rye flour, whole wheat, cocoa, molasses, and instant coffee. Dump the ingredients in and let the machine do the work.

Parkin is a variety of gingerbread, good warming stuff to eat out of doors in cold weather. When I was a child, it was always a firm favourite for the firework party on Bonfire Night each year. This is adapted from my mother's recipe.

Boston brown bread baked in a Bundt pan with buttermilk, molasses, cornmeal, whole wheat flour, and raisins. A no-yeast New England classic with deep, malty sweetness.

Sailor's duff: a steamed molasses pudding from the age-of-sail tradition. Moist, dense, and warmly spiced, traditionally served with hard sauce or vanilla cream.

No-wait wheat-oat bread skips the long rise and goes straight from kneaded dough to a tempered oven bake. Whole wheat, oats, wheat germ, and soy grits for a high-fiber hearty loaf.