These are Rudolph and friends favourite cookies that Mrs Claus makes them for a treat each day in December. They would love it if you would leave these out for them instead of Carrots. You can use other Christmas shaped cutters for these cookies, as well as different colours of icing to personalise your cookies, they taste very yummy indeed.
Ingredients
Cookie Dough
100g salted butter
150g icing sugar
1 egg mixed and use 1 1/2 tablespoons of the mixed egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-1/2cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 pinch of salt
Icing
200g icing sugar
2-3 tablespoons warm water
food colouring
Instructions
1. Preheat your oven to 400F/ 200C/Gas Mark 6
2. In the large bowl cream together butter and icing sugar until fluffy
3. Mix in the egg mixture and the vanilla.
4. Add in flour, baking powder, and salt and mix.
5. Mix until the dough forms a ball, it will pull away from the sides of the bowl.
6. Roll out the dough in between two sheets of greaseproof paper.
7. Place a cookie cutter into a little flour, then into the cookie dough.
8. Then transfer the cookies to a baking sheet and bake for 7-9 minutes.
9. Don't overcrowd the cookie sheet.
10. Check the cookies about a minute before the timer goes off, don't let them brown too much, they will cool and become "dry".
12. Allow cookies to cool on a baking sheet.
13. Then mix icing sugar, and water mix completely smooth.
14. Separate the icing into two bowls, and use a drop of food colouring into each bowl to create the colour you want.
15. Brush the icing onto completely cooled cookies.
16. Allow icing to dry before stacking cookies.