Snowflake Cookies

Total Time: 42 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• 6 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• icing (for writing)
• oil (to grease pans)

Recipe

• 1 before you start, grease two cookie sheets with cooking oil.
• 2 put the butter into a bowl and stir until it is creamy. sift the powdered sugar in and stir until the mixture is smooth.
• 3 sift the flour into the bowl and stir it in with a wooden spoon. then, using your hands, squeeze the mixture to make a dough.
• 4 flatten the dough a little before you wrap it. wrap the dough in plastic food wrap and put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. while the dough chills, preheat your oven to 350°f.
• 5 dust a rolling pin and a clean work surface with a little flour. don't use too much or the dough will get tough. roll out the dough until it is about 1/4 inch thickness.
• 6 cut out lots of circles with the cookie cutter, then, squeeze the scraps into a ball. roll the ball out again, then cut out more circles.
• 7 place the circles onto the greased cookie sheets, about 6 on each. bake the cookies for about 10-12 minutes.
• 8 remove the cookies from the oven and leave them on the sheets for about 2 minutes. then, move them onto a wire rack using a spatula. let them cool completely before you ice them.
• 9 to begin the snowflake design, draw a line down the center of one cookie with the writing icing. draw two more lines crossing over the first one, so it sorta looks like an x with a line in the middle.
• 10 make the snowflake by adding small likes of writing icing across the ends of the lines. try making them all a little different, since there are no snowflakes that are exactly alike.