Sugar Cookies

What you'll need:

3 cups all purpose flour  

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 cup salted butter, room temperature

1 cup granulated white sugar

2 large eggs

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Make it:

Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl and set aside.
Mix the wet ingredients with a mixer and slowly add the dry ingredients.
Split the dough into two equal parts, wrap with plastic wrap and put into the fridge for either an hour or overnight.
When the dough is ready, roll it out and cut out shapes.
Bake the cookies for 8 - 10 minutes at 350 degrees.





Once the cookies are fully cooled, you can ice them.

Royal icing:

3 egg whites
3 tsp lemon juice
4 1/2 cups icing sugar

Make it:

Mix the ingredients until smooth, tint the icing with colour if you like and ice your cookies.





This recipe makes about 2 1/2 dozen cookies.