SUGAR COOKIES

These are my favourite cookies to make for the holidays! The icing dries hard and shiny and the colours stay bright.


Sugar Cookies
1 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 tbsp vanilla
1/2 tsp baking powder

Cream butter and sugar; beat in egg and vanilla. Sift flour and baking powder together, stir into mixture. Refrigerate about 1 hour, or until dough is firm enough to roll. On a floured surface, roll 1/8" thick and cut with cookie cutters. Bake 10-12 min at 350. Makes about 2 dozen cookies or more using small cookie cutters.


Sugar Cookie Icing
1 cup confectioners sugar
2 tsp milk
2 tsp light corn syrup
1/4 tsp vanilla

In a small bowl, stir ingredients together until smooth and glossy. If icing is too thick, add more corn syrup.