Cream butter and brown sugar together. Beat on high scraping down sides of mixing bowl at least once, beat until butter and sugar appear whipped, approximately 3 minutes. Add in vanilla and egg mix to combine.

Measure flour into separate bowl add spices, baking soda and salt to the flour. Gradually add flour mixture to butter sugar mixture. Scrape down bowl several times.

Dust clean flat surface with flour, place cookie dough on floured surface dust with more flour. Using a rolling-pin roll dough out to 1/4 inch thick. Cut into preferred shapes. Place cookies on parchment lined baking sheets bake at 325 degrees for 12 minutes.

Decorating: Sprinkle natural can turbinado sugar on before baking. If using powdered sugar, remove cookies from cookie sheet to a cooling rack and dust with powdered sugar while still hot/warm.