Servings48
Time to Cook10 minutes
Time to Prepare15 minutes
You can glaze your cookies with the glaze noted below, or get creative with royal icing!
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 cup (250 mL) white sugar
- 1 cup (250 mL) butter
- 1 tsp (5 mL) vanilla
- 2 eggs, well beaten
- 2 1/2 cups (625 mL) all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp (10 mL) baking powder
- 1/2 tsp (2.5 mL) salt
Glaze
- 1 1/2 cups (375 mL) icing sugar
- 3 tbsp (45 mL) milk
- 1/8 tsp (0.5 mL) almond extract
- 3 drops food colouring (optional)
Instructions
Cookies
- With electric mixture, beat sugar, butter and vanilla until mixture is creamy, about 2 minutes. Scrape down sides of bowl. Add eggs beating after each egg; beat thoroughly.
- In a separate bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt. Beat the dry ingredients into the creamed mixture.
- Roll out cookie dough to 1/4″ (0.6 cm) onto a lightly floured board. For best results, do not roll cookie dough too thin. Use cookie cutters of your choice for a variety of different shapes and sizes. Place cookies on parchment lined cookie sheets.
- Bake at 350°F (180°C) for 10 minutes or until the underside of cookies turn golden brown.
- Cool completely before icing.
Glaze
- Combine icing sugar with milk to reach desired spreading consistency. Add almond extract and stir in food colouring or leave icing white, as you prefer.
- Using a pastry brush, paint frosting over cooled cookies and decorate with coloured sugar, toasted coconut or slivered almonds, chocolate shavings or chocolate chips.
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