Snowflake Cookies Recipe

Ingredients

• 6 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• white icing (for writing)
• oil (to grease pans)

Instructions

1. Before starting, grease two cookie sheets with cooking oil.
2. Put 6 tablespoons of softened butter into a bowl and stir until creamy.
3. Sift in 1/4 cup of powdered sugar and stir until the mixture is smooth.
4. Sift in 1 cup of all-purpose flour and stir it in with a wooden spoon. Then, using your hands, squeeze the mixture to form a dough.
5. Flatten the dough slightly before wrapping it in plastic wrap and refrigerating for 30 minutes. While the dough chills, preheat your oven to 350°F.
6. Dust a rolling pin and a clean work surface with a little flour. Be careful not to use too much, or the dough will become tough. Roll out the dough to about 1/4 inch thickness.
7. Cut out circles with a cookie cutter. Squeeze the scraps into a ball, roll it out again, and cut out more circles.
8. Place the circles onto the greased cookie sheets, about 6 on each. Bake the cookies for about 10-12 minutes.
9. Remove the cookies from the oven and let them sit on the sheets for about 2 minutes. Then, using a spatula, transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely before icing.
10. To decorate, use the white icing to draw a line down the center of one cookie. Add two more lines crossing over to create an X shape.
11. Finish the snowflake design by adding small lines of icing across the ends of the lines. Feel free to make each one unique, just like real snowflakes.