One of the best things about Christmas is getting to bake with the kids. Cookies/biscuits are the best thing to bake with children, you cant really mess it up! Now that my 4 1/2 is reading numbers she can now weigh out the ingredients which is really fun for all of us!

This recipe is from here, it is makes A LOT of cookies so if you do not want to feed your whole street or be eating cookies until Christmas please cut the recipe in half but I thought it would be fun to give cookies to everyone we know. On the 5th day of Christmas my true love gave to me…

Melting snowmen and Christmas tree sugar cookies

Ingredients

• 2 cups butter

• 2 cups caster sugar

• 2tbsp vanilla essence - 2 eggs

• 4tsp baking powder

• 6 cups plain flour

Method

• Heat oven 180ºc, line a baking tray

• Cream the butter and sugar

• Add vanilla and eggs one at a time

• Add baking powder

• Mix until well incorporated

• Add in flour 2 cups at a time and mix in between

• Roll out handfuls of dough. Make thick

• Place on a baking tray. Make sure the cookies are spread apart or they will go into each other.

• Bake for 6-8 minutes depending on what colour you like.

• Then decorate with icing sugar, water and icing gel.

Comment below if you will or have made this!