sugar and spice cookies

Ingredients

• Servings: 50
• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 pinch ground cloves
• 1/2 cup softened butter
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Recipe

Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 10 mins Ready Time: 2 hrs


• mix the flour, the baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves together in a bowl.
• cream the butter and brown sugar together with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth; beat the egg and vanilla extract into the butter mixture. add the flour mixture in small amount to the butter mixture, beating each addition until blended. form the dough into a ball, wrap with plastic wrap, and refrigerate at least 1 hour or up to 3 days.
• preheat an oven to 350 degrees f (175 degrees c). grease baking sheets.
• roll the dough out on a floured work surface with a rolling pin to about 1/8-inch thickness. cut with 2-inch cookie cutters. arrange the cut cookies the prepared baking sheets.
• bake in the preheated oven until the edges begin to brown, 10 to 12 minutes. allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 1 minute before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.