Sugar and Spice Cookie Recipe
![spice_vert Instead of shortening, this recipe from Meier's cousin Dolly uses good old butter. It's one of the best spice cookies we've made. And the essence of the holidays.](https://www.sonomamag.com/biteclub/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/spice_vert-183x300.jpg)
Submitted by Amy Meiers
Ingredients
3/4 cups room temp. unsalted butter
1 cup of sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup of molasses
2 cups of flour
2 tsp of baking soda
1/4 tsp Salt
1 tsp cinnamon
3/4 tsp ground cloves
3/4 tsp ginger
1/2 cup raw sugar for rolling the cookies
Instructions
Pre-heat oven to 350
Cream butter and sugar, add egg, vanilla then molasses.
Sift together dry ingredients and add to the butter mixture until just combined.
Using a cookie scoop form small balls and roll in sugar. Bake on Silpat liners or parchment paper for 10-12 minutes, one sheet at a time.
Let cool on cookie sheets for about 5 minutes then transfer to a cooling rack.