Recipe:

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 baking powder

3 cups all-purpose flour

2 1/2 sticks butter

1 cup sugar

1 egg + 1 egg yolk

Splash of vanilla extract

Mix all of the above, then cut out shapes and place on pans with parchment paper, bake at 325 for 13-16 minutes.

For icing– Mix 4 cups powdered sugar, 5 tablespoons warm water, 3 tablespoons meringue powder and blend well. Use something nontoxic to color the icing like Watkins without dye. Whatever you do, don’t try to be fancy and make your own food dye out of some microwaved / strained frozen raspberries, thereby ultimately adding too much liquid to the icing mix, but running out of powdered sugar to thicken it- creating a delicious but watery icing mess that drips off your cookies. Or go right ahead, because really there are no rules and it’s the fun that counts (not the outcome)!

Happy Galentine’s!