"These were amazing! I skipped the icing, preferring to dust the tops with white sanding sugar, and it gives them a little added sweetness and crunch. To those who found the cookies bland, make sure you didn't omit a spice and that your spices are pretty fresh--years-old spices lose their oomph!
The recipe was easy to follow--just make sure you"

"This will NOT be my go-to cookie recipe in years to come. The dough took forever to come together and was not just firm but HARD when removed from the fridge. Why refrigerate it for two hours when it then needs to sit on my counter for a half hour to even start to yield to a rolling pin? Then it was like rolling dry clay, crumbling and cracking"