Christmas Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 cups Refined Flour
• 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/4 tsp Salt
• 60 g Butter (softened)
• 15 tsps sugar
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
• 1 Egg
• Mixed Fruit Jam to garnish

For Icing

• 1/2 Cup Butter
• 1 Cup Icing Sugar
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180ºC . Grease a baking tray. Mix together flour, baking soda , salt in a bowl and set aside.
2. In another bowl beat together butter, and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla essence and beat until well combined. Add the flour mixture and mix to make a smooth dough. Cover and refrigerate for an hour.
3. Remove the dough from the refrigerator and roll to a thickness of a quarter inch. Cut the cookies into desired shapes with cookie cutters like stars, snowflakes, christmas tree.
4. Place them on the baking tray keeping a little distance between each. Bake the cookies for 15 minutes or until browned around the edges.Take the tray out of the oven and set aside to cool.
5. To make the icing sieve icing sugar. Cream the butter till soft in a bowl. Add icing sugar a little at a time and beat. Add vanilla essence and continue beating till light and fluffy. Decorate the cookies with the icing and glaze them with jam, whipped cream, chocolates.