Holiday sugar cookies

You are pretty much in m,y family now.We have been making this recipe since my older sister was one (that was before I was born). But we do not just make plain old cookies.We use cookie cutters to make stars and all those holiday shapes.Then we bake them and once they cool we did them in white chocolate!!!!!!!! It has been the same recipe like I said even before I was born. So as you see in the picture they look amazing.I do apologize I would have more in the picture because this recipe makes about five-dozen cookies.But they are so good we ate about four-dozens as soon as we put the chocolate on.Anyway the cookie is not that sweet.So the white chocolate really really helps out.You know me I have a sweet sweet sweet........ tooth.So with out the white chocolate I would not really like it.So the white chocolate is the hot fudge on my cookie dough ice cream.So enjoy and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ingredients-
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
 2 sticks\ butter, room temperature
1 large egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

4 oz good quality chocolate

 

Directions-

Using electric mixer, beat sugar and butter in large bowl until light. Beat in egg and vanilla. Add flour, baking powder and salt. Mix just to combine. Divide dough in half. Gather each piece into ball; flatten into disks. Wrap in plastic and chill 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 325. Roll out 1 dough disk on floured work surface to 1/8-inch thickness. Using a\\ cookie cutters, cut out cookies. Transfer cookies to ungreased baking sheets, spacing 1 inch apart. Gather dough scraps; re-roll to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut out more cookies.

Bake cookies until pale golden, about 13 minutes. Transfer cookies to racks; cool. Repeat with remaining dough disk.

Spoon melted chocolate into pastry bag fitted with 1/16-inch plain tip. Pipe chocolate onto cookies. Let cookies stand until chocolate sets.

Serve and enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!