Moravian Spice Cookies

If you are cutting these cookies as instructed in the recipe—directly on a Silpat after you bake them—be sure not to press too hard or you can damage the mat with the cutter. If you do not have any use for the scrap pieces (other than eating them, which is hard not to do), an alternative is to cut the cookies with a single- or multiple-blade pastry wheel, making 2-inch (5-cm) squares or rectangles. In this case, you cannot cut directly on the mat without causing damage, so you must invert t