Plätzchen

Directions

For the shortcrust pastry, knead the butter, flour, sugar, vanilla sugar and egg into a smooth dough.  Place the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes 

Line a baking tray with baking paper and preheat  the oven to 180 degrees top/bottom heat (fan oven: 160 degrees) . Dust the work surface with flour. Roll out the dough on the work surface to a thickness of about 5 mm and cut out using any cookie cutters. Place the cookies directly on the baking tray. Bake the cookies in the preheated oven for about 7-10 minutes (per tray). Allow to cool completely.  

For the icing, mix the icing sugar and lemon juice together and spread over the cookies with a teaspoon. Finally, decorate with colorful sugar decorations. Allow the icing to set.