I found these...I love molasses cookies. Maybe these are similar?

Here is a link that might be useful: Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies

Might they have been the iced molasses cookies made by Archway Cookies? The company is going out of business.....so sad. They did make some good cookies.

Were they called Aunt Sally cookies? I remember them from the 60s. I found a recipe for them a while back.

I loved them, too!

INGREDIENTS

Cookies
* 1 cup white sugar
* 2 cups shortening
* 2 egg yolks
* 1 cup molasses
* 5 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
* 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
* 4 teaspoons baking soda
* 2 teaspoons salt
* 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
* 1 tablespoon ground ginger
* 1 cup sour milk

Frosting
* 1 1/2 cups white sugar
* 1/2 teaspoon distilled white vinegar
* 1/2 cup water
* 18 large marshmallows
* 2 egg whites
* 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS

1. In a large bowl, cream together 1 cup white sugar and shortening until smooth. Stir in the egg yolks and molasses. Combine the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and ginger; stir into the molasses mixture alternately with the sour milk. Cover and chill for 30 minutes.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). On a lightly floured surface roll the dough out to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut into rectangular shapes (I like to use a Spam can). Place cookies 1 inch apart onto an ungreased baking sheet.
3. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, until lightly browned. Remove from baking sheets to cool on wire racks.
4. To make the frosting, combine 1 1/2 cups sugar, vinegar, water and marshmallows. Mix well and place over a pot of simmering water. when the marshmallows have melted, stir in the egg whites. Remove from heat and beat with an electric mixer for 7 minutes. Stir in the vanilla and confectioners' sugar until well blended. Frost cooled cookies.

Here is a link that might be useful: Aunt Sally cookies.

Thanks for the responses. No Teresa, they are not Archway cookies. The Aunt Sally cookies and the Old Fashioned Molasses cookies recipes posted by barnmom and vicki are both similar to the recipe I have. Mine is called Valborg's Soft Molasses Cookies. It is very close to what I remember. I will have to try these two recipes to see how they compare.

Try posting on the Recipe Exchange (link to this thread). Ginger St. Thomas is really good about finding these things.

hockeychik: I remember these very well. They were fairly thick and relatively soft, and had scalloped edges. I don't remember that they were particularly spicey. At the age I was when I ate these, I never looked to see what they were called; just enjoyed them.

Good luck on your search.

Found these Aunt Sally cookies at the Vermont Country Store.

Here is a link that might be useful: Cookies.

Hockeychik, I've been looking for information on these forgotten cookies as well. I brought a pack home in the 70's and my mother said she used to buy them as a little girl in the 1930's. I remember them being called "Big Lunch". They were as you discribed them, scalloped edges with pink and/or white icing. I remember them being a big molasses/ginger flavored snack but I have been unable to find any info on them anywhere. I hope this rings a bell.

Sunshine64

My grandmother bought these cookies when I was gradeschool age in the 1960s. Never forgot them. And if I can recall, the back of the cookie had the name, Sally, on the back inscribed in cursive, into the cookie; the only part I recall about, Sally. And another name beside or before it which well may have been "Aunt". My thought however, was the name being, Sally Ann.

Great cookie! My grandmother like many... was a champion baker herself. So when she did buy store bought cookies, they had to be good. This cookie brand plus Oreos and Ginger Snaps, were the only cookies I recall her buying.

Thank you centralcacyclist for the recipe!

They sound really yummy!

Oh I fondly remember the Aunt Sally cookies! You had to be careful that they didn't sit long or they became hard as rocks! Archway has an iced molasses cookie that is very similar in taste but less icing. Archway is going out of business? That's too bad. Great stuff. I know they went through bankruptcy a couple times and were bought out during liquidation but I thought they're still going. When did this happen?

We have Stage Plank cookies here that sound just like these. They are sold in packs of two. Recently, I've seen lemon and other variations.

I do remember them very well, I loved to dunk them in milk. I'm not sure about the name but some friends and I were talking about these cookies and some seem to remember them being called Circus Cookies or something like that. I see here that they may have been called Aunt Sallie's, truthfully I wasn't interested in who made them when I was a kid, I was interesting in dunking them in ice cold milk and enjoying!

I thought they were called Plantation Cookies but I'm not sure ...They were rectangular and had 2 in a pack...I want some so badly right now❤

Stage planks. Uncle Al's is one brand. You can still buy online at Amazon

Aunt Sally and Sally Ann cookies are the same creature; from the late 1930's early 40's, a molasses cookie frosted with a thick cooked frosting that hardens on the exterior but stays soft underneath. The cookie dough is refrigerated and then rolled out and cut with a Spam can to give it the traditional shape. Once baked, the cookie is hard; it seems to draw moisture from the thick frosting and softens up as the frosting hardens. It's really a magical transformation!

The name difference seems to be regional (Aunt Sally=east; Sally Ann=south & midwest). My authentic Aunt Sally recipe uses brewed coffee but no eggs. The frosting is made not with marshmallows, but by cooking unflavored gelatine, water and granulated sugar, and then adding powdered sugar and beating it for 15 min.

Stage Plank cookies are a different animal altogether; they are a form of gingerbread with well-documented Creole roots. The cookie is crisper than a "Sally" and any icing (the original is not iced), is a just a thin coat of royal icing. Uncle Al's Stage Planks are the archetypal modern Stage Plank cookie-- but they don't seem to bear much resemblence to the original.

I found a cookie at Aldi, the German grocery store. These cookies come 7 in s pack with 4 white frosted and 3 chocolate frosted. They sell for $1.99 for 7 cookies.

TRY THEM

You are describing the cookies that I’m trying to find.. from the late 50’s & 60’s.

These were large, thick, soft molasses cookies, with pink and white icing!

I remember those cookies from my childhood. They were called Stage Planks. I found some on Amazon, but they are nothing like the ones I used to buy back in the 1950s. The cookies back then were larger, softer and had pink or white royal icing. The ones I found on Amazon are small, hard and hardly have any frosting. What a disappointment. Guess I will have to find a recipe and make my own. I didn't know that they were originally a creole recipe. I grew up in the North and just found that out.

The 1950's cookies you are describing are called Aunt Sally (Sally Ann) cookies. The cookies you purchased from Amazon are called Stage Planks & are still made commercially. There is no commercial bakery that I am aware of that makes/sells Aunt Sally cookies.

Here is the best, authentic recipe for Aunt Sally cookies that I have found on the internet. Be sure to read the comments and adjust accordingly.

https://iowasue.blogspot.com/search?q=sally+ann

Yes I remember those cookies but I must have been three or four years old it was in the 50s I remember having them ❤️

I'd love to those cookie with the pink frosting funny I remember all of that I'm 75 now 🤔

Yes!! Those were my favorite cookie. Wish I could get tbe recipe!

The first recipe here, from centralcacyclist, has two teaspoons salt, which is way too much. Boo Boo's recipe has 1/2 teaspoon, which seem much more reasonable. I hate salty cookies or salty anything that is sweet. My grandmother would put too much salt in her cookies.

Yes. they were my Mom’s and my favorite ”store-bought” cookies. They were exactly as you described. They came in an oblong package with a clear olastic wrapper so you could view alternating rows of pink and white iced scallopped esged cookies. I’ve tried several of the recipes. None taste like the ones from when I was a kid. I wish I could at least find a picture of the original cookie package and what company made them. They definitely were not Archway or any other company that’s atill producing cookies now.

I remember Stage Planks well. My grandfather used to take them in his lunch. You're right about Stage Planks by Uncle Al - they don't make 'em like they used to. I think I've also seen them marketed as "Rock and Roll"