Sugar and Spice Cookies

These sugar and spice cookies are my favorite cut-out cookies. Sweet and spicy, they're a wonderful Christmas treat. I've been making them every holiday for almost 15 years now. You can make the dough up to 3 days ahead of time.

• Preparation Time: 20 mins
• Cooking Time: 10 mins
• Total Time: 30 mins
• Calories: 51 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 pinch ground cloves
• ½ cup softened butter

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Mix the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves together in a bowl.

Step 2

Cream butter and brown sugar together with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth; beat egg and vanilla extract into the butter mixture. Add the flour mixture in small amounts 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.

Step 3

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease baking sheets.

Step 4

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 onto the prepared baking sheets.

Step 5

Bake in the preheated oven until the edges begin to brown, 10 to 12 minutes. Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 1 minute before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.