Love And Hugs Cookies- Sugar Cookies

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 20
• 100 g butter, softened (4oz)
• 150 g caster sugar (6oz)
• 2 egg yolks
• 2 teaspoons honey
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 4 teaspoons milk
• 200 g plain flour (8oz)
• 50 g cornstarch aka cornflour (2oz)
• 150 g icing sugar (5oz confectioners sugar)
• 2 tablespoons warm water
• pink food coloring, but you can use your favourite colour-just a couple of drops

Recipe

• 1 .preheat your oven to 180°c 350f and line two baking trays with a quality baking paper.
• 2 place the softened butter and the sugar into a large bowl and beat them with a wooden spoon, until the look creamy.
• 3 add the egg yolks and beat them inches.
• 4 stir in the honey, vanilla essence and the milk.
• 5 sift in the flour and cornflour. mix everything with the wooden spoon.
• 6 use your hands to squeeze the mixture into a ball of dough. if it is too dry add a few drops of milk. if it is too wet- add in a little more sifted flour.
• 7 sprinkle a little flour onto your bench.
• 8 roll out the dough until it is about 5mm or 1/4 inch thick.
• 9 use the cutters to cut out shapes and place them onto the baking trays.
• 10 you can reroll hte scraps to cut more cookies.
• 11 bake 8 to 10 minutes and then leave them on the trays to cool.
• 12 you can dust the cooled cookies with a sprinkling of icing sugar or ice if desired. we like to do some of each.
• 13 a simple icing- mix icing ingredients together and spread with a knif over the cookies. the icing will harden as it sets.
• 14 store cookies in an airtight container.