Cupcake Cookies

Well i thought this week id have a rest from cupcakes and make some cookies .... cupcake cookies haha!
I bought myself a cute cookie cutter the other day along with a few other things, i buy all my cake gear online from http://www.cakestuff.co.nz/ check it out as they have heaps of cool stuff
The recipe i used for the cookies and Royal icing came out of "Bake" by Alison Gofton both where real easy and fun to make these cookies would be real good to make with the kids

Basic Biscuit's:

Makes 24

125g butter softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoon of golden syrup or honey
1 tablespoon of desiccated coconut
1 1/2 cups of flour

preheat the oven to 180 degrees
in a medium bowl beat butter, sugar, egg and golden syrup or honey together until creamy and light in colour
stir in the coconut if you are using then add sifted flour mix only until combined
roll to a 3mm thickness and cut out cookie shapes
bake for 10 - 15 Min's


Royal Icing:

1 egg white
about 2 cups of icing sugar
1 teaspoon of lemon juice

place egg white in a bowl and break up with a fork until it just begins to form bubbles of foam
using a wooden spoon slowly add icing sugar and lemon stirring gently so you don't let too much air in it
continue to add icing sugar until the mixture is stiff and soft peaks form if  the icing isn't firm enough just keep adding icing sugar until you get the right consistency

* when piping icing onto your cookies do an out line first in a firm icing then water down you icing to flood in the outlines - this takes a bit of practice but you get the hang on if it pretty fast