Christmas Sugar Cookies!

The things you will need...

For the cookies :
140g of icing sugar
1tsp Vanilla Extract
1 Egg Yolk
250g Butter (cut it into small chunks)
375g of flour

For the icing:

225g Icing Sugar
1 Egg White
Cold water

You've got t preheat your oven to 190oC. Using a wooden spoon or a mixer, mix together the butter, vanilla, sugar and egg yolk, set the egg white aside for later. Cream together the mixture until it's all mixed well and then add the flour. Add the flour a little bit at a time until it's all combined to form a dough. Wrap the dough in cling film and chill it in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Spread some flour on the worktop and roll out the dough with a rolling pin, (Small tip: Add a little flour to the pin to stop it from sticking) Then using Christmas cookie cutters, cut out shapes and carefully put them on a lined baking tray. You can either used small cutters to make lots of little cookies or one large one like a giant snowflake.

Put the tray/trays into the oven and bake for 10-12 minutes until they are lightly golden brown. Slide them off the tray (carefully) and leave to cool down. While you're waiting for them to cool you can start making your icing! Using a mixer, mix together the icing sugar, the egg white and add a teaspoon of cold water if it feels too thick. Spoon the mixture into a piping bag with a thin nozzle (or you can use a ziplock bag and cut a small hole to use) then you're ready to pipe your completely cooled cookies. You can add food colouring to the icing mixture for cool colours and you can add sprinkles to make the cookies feel sparkly.