Ingredients

• 1/2 cup Butter melted
• 3/4 cup Brown Sugar
• 1/2 cup Molasses
• 1 Egg Yolk
• 2 cups + 3 Tbsp Unbleached White All-Purpose Flour
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
• 1/2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
• 1 tsp Ground Cloves
• 1 tsp Ground Ginger
• 1/2 tsp Ground Nutmeg
• Powdered Sugar

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. In a bowl cream together butter and sugar with hand mixer. Add molasses and egg yolk and continue mixing. Add flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves, ginger and nutmeg. Mix.
3. Prepare your dough area. Sprinkle powdered sugar lightly out onto a clean surface. Sprinkle powdered sugar on rolling pin. Roll the dough out into 1/2 inch thickness. Using a cookie cutter of your choice cut out the cookies. Continue until all the dough is gone.
4. Place on greased cookie sheets. Bake for 10-12 minutes--shorter if you want a soft chewy cookie, longer if you want a crunchy cookie.
5. Remove from oven and let cool. Sprinkle with powered sugar.