Sugar Glazed Cookies

Ingredients

• 250 g butter
• 250 g sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 bottle bitter almond essence
• 125 g ground almonds
• 350 g flour
• 300 g powdered sugar
• 7 tbsp lemon juice
• various colored sugar lettering (tubes from the baking aisle)
• baking paper

Instructions

1. 1.

   Line a baking sheet with baking paper. Preheat oven to 200°C. Whisk butter, sugar, egg and bitter almond essence until fluffy. Add almonds and flour and knead into dough. Shape dough into rolls about 6 cm in diameter. Cut 1 cm thick rounds from the rolls and place on the baking sheet.

2. 2.

   Bake in convection oven at 180°C for 13 minutes. Let cool. Mix powdered sugar and lemon juice into a smooth glaze. Brush cookies with glaze. Allow glaze to dry. Use colored sugar lettering to paint Santa heads or other Christmas motifs on the cookies.