Christmas Lemon Cookies

Ingredients:
Cookies:
1 cup butter; softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp grated dried lemon peel [i used fresh and it was fine]
2 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
Icing:
2 1/4 cup confectioner’s sugar
5 tbsp milk
red and green paste food-coloring
Dragees to decorate [those little silver bars]

Directions:

Cookies:

1. Cream butter, sugar and lemon peel in a large bowl until fluffy. Stir in flour; knead until a soft ball forms. Cover and chill for 30 minutes.
2. Preheat oven to 300. On a lightly floured surface, use a floured rolling pin to roll out dough to 1/4-inch thickness. Use a tree-shaped cookie cutter to cut dough. Transfer cookies to a greased baking sheet. Bake 20-25 minutes or until cookies are light brown. Cool on rack.

Icing:

1. Mix confectioner’s sugar and milk together in a medium bowl. Devide icing into 3 small bowls. Tint 1 bowl red and 1 green and leave the other white. Pour icing over cookies, smooth with spatula, decorate with dragees. Allow icing to harden. Store in an air-tight container.

*Notes:
i made half of the icing recipe, so i used 1 cup and 2 tbsp confectioner’s sugar. and 2 1/2 tbsp of milk. anyway, they’re pretty good cookies. i made mine orange because it’s June not December. Anyway so i didn’t use a cookie cutter either because of time.