Christmas cookies

Ingredients for cookies:

-3 cups flour
-2 teaspoons baking powder
-1 teaspoon salt
-1 cup unsalted margarine
-½ cup sugar
-1 egg
-1 tablespoon vanilla extract
-1/2 a teaspoon of grated lemon or orange

How to do it:

Preheat oven to 200 ° C.

Beat margarine and sugar mixture, and also add egg and vanilla extract andgrated lemon ororange. Gradually add dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt). Make 2 balls, and with a rolling pin to stretch one of the masses. Then cut the mass with the form wanted, you can do it with lots of differents funny forms. And strain it in a can of paper butter.Bake for about 6 to 7 minutes.

They are more beautiful decorated with glasé and that's what we are going to do now.

For its consistence, the glaze or "glasé" can be used to perform pair edges, ruffles, flowers,joiningpieces of tablets, etc.

You can make a certain amount and then divide to give different colors.

Ingredients

-1 egg white
-Sugar ¼ glass (powdered, powder)
-Lemon juice

Preparation

In a bowl beat the egg white and incorporating a little sugar and then a few dropsof lemon juice.Continue beating until stiff peaks form.
Place into a sleeve or cartridge and decorate.

The consistency of the glasé will depend on the mixing time.

Secrets
Galze toosoft. In this case only need to add a bit more sugar.
Glaze too thick. One only need to add a few drops of lemon juice.

Then we put the glasé on the cookies and we have a sweet cokies with differents forms, normally in this case with Christmas forms.

Hope you enjoy it! :) (308)