Brown Sugar And Spice Cut Out Cookies

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   Cream butter and brown sugar in large bowl. Add egg. Beat well. Combine next 5 ingredients in medium bowl. Add to butter mixture in 2 additions, mixing well after each addition, until no dry flour remains.

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   Divide dough in half. Shape each half into slightly flattened disc. Wrap with plastic wrap. Let stand for 30 minutes. Discard plastic wrap from 1 disc. Roll out dough on lightly floured surface to about 1/8 inch (3 mm) thickness. Cut out shapes with lightly floured cookie cutter. Roll out scraps to cut more shapes. Arrange about 2 inches (5 cm) apart on parchment paper-lined cookie sheets. Cut out centre of each cookie with smaller, lightly floured cookie cutter.

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   Spoon 1/2 tsp. candy into cut-out centre of each cookie (see Note).

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   Bake in 350u00b0F (175u00b0C) oven for 8 to 10 minutes until golden and candy is melted. Let stand on cookie sheets for 10 minutes. Remove cookies from cookie sheets and place on wire racks to cool. Cool cookie sheets between batches. Repeat with remaining disc and candy.

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   Makes about 30 cookies.

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   1 cookie: 92 Calories; 3.4 g Total Fat (0.9 g Mono, 0.1 g Poly, 2.1 g Sat); 14 mg Cholesterol; 15 g Carbohydrate; trace Fibre; 1 g Protein; 68 mg Sodium

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   Note: To save time on cleanup, use a pastry brush to sweep any candy crumbs from the cookie sheet before baking.

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