Chocolate Spice Cookies

Ingredients

1 cup butter or non-dairy substitute
1/2 cup shortening
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg
3 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1/4 tsp paprika
3 tbsp cocoa powder

Directions

1 Cream butter and shortening until smooth.
2. Add vanilla and sugars and blend well. Mix in an egg.
3. In another bowl, mix flour and spices.
4. Gradually add dry mix into wet (in about three batches). It may look a bit crumbly.
5. Cool mixture in the fridge for at least 30 minutes (it can sit overnight if you want to make the cookies the next day).
6. Preheat oven to 350º.
7. Butter and flour two cookie sheets, sprinkle the countertop with flour.
8. Divide dough into three batches. Work with one at a time, keeping the others in the refrigerator.
9. Knead dough until soft.
10. Roll dough out until it is 1/4 inch thick and cut it into shapes and place on cookie sheets.
11. These cookies don't spread out too much, so you can put them a little closer together than other cookies. Bake 10-15 minutes.
12. Let cookies cool on tray for 5-10 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.

Tips

Use a non-dairy butter substitute for a non-dairy cookie.