Festive Butter Cookies Recipe

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This is the perfect cookie to add to your cookie plates during the holidays. They are so delicious and almost melt in your mouth.—Dorothy Jennings, Waterloo, Iowa

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Festive Butter Cookies Recipe

Prep: 20 min. Bake: 10 min./batch + cooling

Yield: 36 Servings

20 10 30

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
ROYAL ICING:
3-3/4 cups confectioners' sugar
1/3 cup warm water
4 teaspoons meringue powder
Red, green, yellow, turquoise and purple paste food coloring

Directions

In a bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine dry ingredients; gradually add to the creamed mixture. Cover and chill for 1 hour or until easy to handle.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with 2-1/2-in. cookie cutters. Place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on wire racks.
For icing, in a small bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar, water and meringue powder; beat on low speed just until combined. Beat on high for 4 minutes or until soft peaks form. Cover frosting with damp paper towels or plastic wrap between uses. Tint icing with colors of your choice.
Working quickly with one color at a time, pipe outlines on some of the cookies; fill with thinned icing of the same color. Repeat using other colors. Let dry at room temperature for several hours or until firm.
Add designs or writing to cookies if desired. Let stand until set. Store in an airtight container. Yield: about 3 dozen.

Originally published as Festive Butter Cookies in Taste of Home Christmas Country Style 2009 , p30