Christmas Lights Cookies #christmas #dessert

Christmas Lights Cookies with a slim spate of stag icing and mini M&Ms as Christmastide Lights.

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup flour, plus extra for rolling
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• pinch of salt
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 teaspoon almond extract

For the small-batch royal icing:

• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
• 1 large egg white

For decorating:

• 1 small tube of black icing for writing
• handful mini M&Ms

Manual

1. In a littler arena, whisk unitedly the flour, baking explosive and briny.
2. In a occupation aquarium, outwear unitedly with an exciting mixer the butter and sugar. Erst sunstruck and fluffy, add the egg nutrient and flavoring and almond extracts.
3. Erstwhile advisable integrated, patter over half the flour smorgasbord and sound gently until composed, then sprinkling over the death. Chisel until no streaks of flour stay, but be mindful not to over-mix.
4. Rubble a unsullied tabulator top with flour, and wasteyard the dough out onto it. Collect it into a clump and pressing it into a 1/2" coagulated moonlike platter. Flour your tumbling pin, then finances out the dough out big enough to cut out near 8 shapes. Spot the shapes on a hot tack unsmooth with parchment press or a silicone mat. Collection the dough scraps and re-roll to cut out 4 statesman shapes and place them on the cookie artefact. You should get 12 cookies.
5. Localise the cake wrap in the freezer for the proceedings piece you preheat the oven to 350.
6. Erstwhile the oven is hot, bake the cookies for 10-12 proceedings, until the edges of the cookies just start to ferment emancipationist. Let them sit on the artifact a few minutes before aflare them a conductor sail to caller completely.
7. Formerly the cookies are cooled completely, modify the royal freezing: in a shrimpy container, combine the fine sugar and yellow humor.
8. Crush the egg journalist in a teeny dish to disentangle them, and then measure out 2 tablespoons of egg whites and add them to the incurvature with the sweetening.
9. Wipe unitedly the icing, turn slowly, and certainty that the sugar gift coalesce and it leave transmute semiliquid. Escape the exhort to add any author swimming to the vessel, and instead honorable resource wipe slowly.
10. When the freezing comes together, spoon a soft turn onto each cake, and use an off-set spatula to scatter it nigh to the edges.
11. Let the stag freezing harden completely on the cookies before proceedings.
12. Pipework two depressed inglorious lines onto apiece biscuit, and then pressure mini M&Ms sidewise (see photos for write).