Brown Sugar Spice Cookies
These Brown Sugar Spice Cookies are buttery, warmly spiced cutout cookies made with brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. The dough is easy to roll and doesn't require chilling, making these cookies perfect for holiday baking, cookie exchanges, or making ahead and freezing.
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 whole egg
- 2 cups all-purpose Flour + more for rolling out dough
- 1 tsp ground clove
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- natural cane turbinado and powdered sugar for decorating
Instructions
- 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.
Nutrition
Serving: 2cookiesCalories: 91kcalCarbohydrates: 10gProtein: 1gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.2gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 14mgSodium: 87mgPotassium: 16mgFiber: 0.3gSugar: 5gVitamin A: 0.4IUVitamin C: 0.003mgCalcium: 6mgIron: 0.4mg
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