Makes it look prettier. With an electric mixer, cream the butter with both sugars, molasses, and egg yolk. Mix the remaining ingredients, except the egg white, together. Stir into the butter mixture to form a stiff dough. Preheat oven to 350F and add butter cookie sheets.
Lift cookies onto sheets and brush lightly with egg white.
Bake 8 minutes until crisp. Make a hole 1-inch from the top of each cookie. Thread hole with gold ribbon. These are also nice to decorate with white or colored icing. Toss in the popped corn, peanuts,and cherries and mix well.