Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies #christmas #cookies

I totally did it you guys! I pulled out my rolling pin and cookie cutters and I prefabricated homespun icing and utilized a piping bag. Dedicated cow, it was a busy day in this home! It strength not say same a lot, but I'm a tally newbie at this. I haven't victimised my trilled pin since we best got married. And I've never e'er prefabricated homemade play before. E'er. I'm not confident I prefabricated it with the justice uniformness, but it was delicious, and my Yule histrion sweetening cookies rotated out beautifully! So I'll numeration it as a win!

Ingredients

For the cookies:

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3 cups all-purpose flour

For the icing:

• 2 cups shortening
• 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
• 8 cups icing sugar
• ⅓ cup cream (add more if it's too thick)
• gel food colouring

Manual

For the cookies:

1. Preheat the oven to 350F.
2. Withdraw together the butter and dulcify with a mixer until disembarrass.
3. Bushed in the flavoring make and egg.
4. In added vessel, mingle the flour and baking powder and mix comfortably.
5. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients a little at a experience.
6. When it's all mixed in, wet your keeping and work it by accumulation until it's a operative dough uniformity.
7. Instantly throw miniature batches out onto a floured opencast to almost ¼" creamy, then cut with biscuit cutters. (Don't modify the dough)
8. Heat at 350F for 8 to 9 minutes.

For the Ice:

1. In a monstrous dish, weary the shortening and flavourer with a mixer until it's entire.
2. Add the freezing edulcorate, micro amounts at a abstraction, until combined.
3. Add the remove gradually and mix until you get the desirable body. Add many toiletries if you necessity to.
4. Add gel content foodstuff and mix.

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