Ingredients
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg & vanilla. Set aside.
- Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Stir into creamed mixture.
- Chill dough 1 hour.
- Roll out dough and cut into shapes.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 6-8 minutes.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine sugar and meringue powder or egg whites.
- Cool cookies on a wire rack.
- Prepare the icing.
- Mixing on low speed, add a scant 1/2 cup water.
- Mix until icing holds a ribbon-like trail on the surface of the mixture for 5 seconds when you raise the paddle. Make sure the icing is a thin consistency and add a little water if needed.
- Dip each cookie in the icing and then place on wire rack to harden.
