Crackle Spice Drops

Grocery stores really know how to get you, don’t they? You’re standing in line, waiting patiently to check out, pay for your items, and go home. And then you see it, the cover a magazine boasting the perfect cookie that you know you have no choice but to make, now that you’ve seen it.  I saw that magazine.  Tempted as I was to race back into the aisle to grab each ingredient, I opted for putting the magazine onto the conveyor belt for check out instead. Self restraint at the helm.

And then I got home, and promptly wished I had raced back into the aisles and grabbed all the ingredients to make those fabulous looking cookies.  

It took me three days to decide that I really needed to make the cookies.  Three days of debating if they were “worth it” and by the time I was confirmed on baking, I was at work, and my magazine was at home. The grocery store? Between the two.  

I had no idea what my ingredients were for the cookies in the magazine, that I knew was laying, turned to the appropriate page, on my coffee table. 

So I made these delectable little things instead.

 1/2 cup Butter

1/2 cup unpacked brown sugar     

1 large egg

1 Tbsp vanilla extract   

2 cups all-purpose flour   

1/2 tsp baking soda   

1/4 tsp table salt   

1 Tbsp pumpkin pie spice   

1/4 cup(s) powdered sugar          

Preheat oven to 375°F.

In a mixing bowl, on medium speed, beat margarine with brown sugar until creamy. Add egg and vanilla extract; beat until light and fluffy. Stir in flour, baking soda, salt and spice.

Roll rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into powdered sugar to coat. Place onto baking sheet. Bake until golden, about 7 to 8 minutes. Yields 1 cookie per serving.