Each year, during the week before the school Christmas fair, my little one comes home with an empty paper plate for filling up with home bakes. I usually send back cakes or cupcakes. This year, I decided to try something I had never baked before – sugar cookies (recipe courtesy: www.joyofbaking.com). Went for green and red colours for that festive feel!

The recipe for royal icing used to coat the cookies:
60g egg white
300g icing sugar
lemon juice for diluting

Method:
Whisk the egg whites and icing sugar till they are mixed well and you can see stiff peaks.
Adjust consistency using lemon juice.

To coat the cookies:
Pipe an outline using royal icing of a more stiff consistency (loose enough to flow out of the piping bag but stiff enough to hold its shape on the cookie).

Fill in with very runny icing. (Note: Place the filled out cookies on a plate & tap it well to ensure the icing spreads evenly).

A final piped design on the cookie completes the festive look!

TIP: To get the perfect green colour, add a bit of navy blue + a tiny touch of yellow alongwith the base green paste colour!