CHRISTMAS COOKIES

You will also need:
Royal Icing
Food coloring
Silver dragees
 

• Sift together baking powder and flour.
• Cream margarine; gradually beat in vanilla, sugar, egg and milk.
• Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture; part at a time.
• Gather dough into a ball, flatten to a 5-6-inch round.
• Wrap in plastic and refrigerate at least 45 minutes or overnight.
• When dough has chilled, heat oven to 325 F (160 C).
• Grease 2 baking sheets; set aside.
• Cut dough round in half.
• Flour working area  and place one half of dough in center. 
• Roll out dough to 1/5-inch thickness. 
• Using round cookie cutter (we used 3-inch round shape), cut out as many cookies as possible.
• Remove all trimmings and press together; set aside.
• Put cookies onto greased baking sheet.
• Repeat with remaining half of cookie dough to fill second baking sheet.
• Reroll trimmings to cut out more shapes.
• Bake cookies 10 to 12 minutes or until just golden at edges.
• Cool cookies 5 minutes on baking sheets; remove to wire racks and cool completely.