RECIPE: REC: Spice Cookies (easy-peasy ones)

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mariadnoca

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I had these at a cookie exchange years ago and like them so much asked for the recipe. Which, I promptly stashed and forgot about till now. Going to make these later, but thought I'd share now in case someone is looking to add to their holiday list.

Spice Cookies

Cookie:

1 C firmly packed brown sugar

1 C butter, softened

1 egg

2 C all-purpose flour

1 t cardamon

1 t cinnamon

1/4 C sugar (for rolling cookies in)

Frosting:

1 C powdered sugar

2 t milk

2 t corn syrup

1/4 t vanilla

Combine brown sugar and butter, beat till fluffy. Add egg and blend. Add flour, cardamon and cinnamon. Mix well. Chill for 1 hour.

Heat oven to 350F. Shape dough into 1-inch balls, roll in sugar. Place 2 inches apart on un-greased cookie sheets. Flatten cookies to 1 1/2-inch rounds with bottom of glass dipped in sugar.

Bale 6-10 minutes. Frost when cool.

FYI, it doesn't list a yield.

 
I'm always wary of "spice" cookies because there is a German cookie with an "unknown" spice that

I despise.

I'm pretty sure it's either a cocoa chocolate cookie or some cookie with so much spice in it that it looks like chocolate. Small, puffy, hemispherical. Thinking it had chocolate would be the only reason I would have been fooled into eating it as a kid.

I "think" it might either be allspice or mace combined with cocoa...because I've tried smelling both of those in their jars and neither triggers that "ugghhh" shudder from me.

 
pfefferneuse?? Sounds like a sneeze but it could be the cookie??

It could be the cassia buds in them.

 
ha! My paternal grandfather was German, so Dad would always buy a bag of imported German

cookies each Christmas. That's why I have no recipe to go on...plus the text on the bag was in German. I just knew there was a cookie in that bag {and out there in this world} that I didn't like.

 
Update/review: *very* good, will go into permanent holiday cookie rotation!

I did have to double the icing as it's quite thick, but the addition of the corn syrup makes them set up quick - a good thing when doing lots for the holidays.

 
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