Sugar Cookies & Icing!

Ingredients:
•1 cup unsalted butter, softened
•1 egg
•1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
•1 tbsp vanilla extract
•2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
•2 teaspoons baking powder
•1 teaspoon salt

Makes: About 3 dozen cookies.
instructions
Preheat oven to 400°F. In mixing bowl, cream butter with sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and extract. Mix flour, baking powder and salt; add to butter mixture 1 cup at a time, mixing after each addition. Do not chill dough. Divide dough into 2 balls. On a floured surface, roll each ball into a circle approximately 12 in. wide and 1/8 in. thick. Dip cookie cutter in flour before each use. Bake cookies on uncreased cookie sheet 6-7 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned


ICING RECIPE!

Ingredients
1 cup confectioners' sugar
2 teaspoons milk
2 teaspoons light corn syrup
1/4 teaspoon almond extract or vanilla extract
assorted food coloring

Directions
1.In a small bowl, stir together confectioners' sugar and milk until smooth. Beat in corn syrup and almond extract until icing is smooth and glossy. If icing is too thick, add more corn syrup.
2.Divide into separate bowls, and add food colorings to each to desired intensity. Dip cookies, or paint them with a brush.


(I made these for my sons 1st birthday party & they were a huge hit. They weren't too crunchy & the icing wasn't overly sweet. These would have been great as a take home goodie bag. Overall these weren't hard to make at all. I used a mini chocolate chip for the duckies eyes & got the cookie cutter off amazon. It was a Wilton chick cutter, it was perfect for duckies.)