Christmas Snowflake Cookies

Delicious Christmas cookies that you are going to want to make for all of your friends and family.

Ingredients

3 cups flour

1 cup butter, soften 1 egg

1 cup white sugar 2 tsp vanilla

1 tsp baking powder

Royal Icing

1 1/4 cups icing sugar 1 tbsp lemon juice 1 egg white

Utensils

Your choice of different sized snowflake cookie cutters.

Method

1. In a small bowl, mix the flour & baking powder. Set aside. 2. In a separate bowl, add the butter & sugar. Using an electric

mixer, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. 3. Beat in egg and vanilla. Add the dry ingredients and beat

until the mixture comes together.

4. Once dough has come together, wrap in cling film and

refrigerate for an hour.

5. Preheat the oven to 180C (350F).

6. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to ½ cm in thickness. Cut out with your cookie cutters. Transfer cookies to a baking trays lined with baking paper.

7. Bake cookies at 180C (350F) for 8-10 minutes, until lightly

brown.

8. Transfer cookies to wire racks to cool completely.

9. To make the icing – whisk all ingredients into a small bowl until combined. You can change the colours to your liking by adding a little food colouring to the mixture.

10. Decorate your cookies with different snowflake patterns

and styles and allow to set.

11. Dust with icing sugar.