Best Loved Sugar Cookies

I was never really a big fan of sugar cookies, thus I never made any...till recently.
I tried making it once and I just couldn't stop! It was an addiction! I just kept making it, and trying to perfect it. So much so, that I couldn't eat it all by myself.
So I started giving it out as gifts to friends who requested it =)
It's incredibly easy and incredibly delish!
So here it is!

Best Loved Sugar Cookies
Makes 25 cookies

• 3/4 cup white caster sugar
• 130 gram butter
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest

Icing

• 1 cup confectioners' sugar
• 2 teaspoons milk
• assorted food colouring
  

1. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla.
2. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Cut dough in half, wrap and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight).
3. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Roll out dough on lightly floured surface to 1/4 an inch thick. Cut into shapes with any cookie cutter. Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
4. Bake until cookies are set and light gold around edges, about 10 minutes. Let cool on sheets on wire racks for 5 minutes. Transfer cookies to racks, and let cool.
5. In a small bowl, stir together confectioners' sugar and milk until smooth. Add food colouring if desired. Ice cookies. Using either a teaspoon or pastry brush

Enjoy =)

I packed mine in a box and gave it to a friend as a gift.

Ps: If you don't have a cookie cutter (which i didn't at that time) I used... a clean kitchen cardboard roll haha it works brilliantly! But it would be nice to use cookie cutters and not be a cheap student like me haha.