Christmas Sugar cookies with Royal Icing - Both In Eggless Version

With holidays season about to begin, children hope Santa gets them the gifts, while adults hope for a relaxing time. Shops online or offline are buzz with various deals to attract customers. In addition, at home various experiments can be done. Here is something which i tried and it turned out to be a perfect Christmas cookie.
Happy Christmas and happy holidays.


INGREDIENTS
Eggless cookies 

• Wheat flour - 1/2 cup
• All purpose flour - 1/2 cup
• Powdered sugar - 1/3 cup
• Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
• Salt - 1/4 tsp
• Softened butter - 1/3 cup (heaped)
• Milk - 2 tbsp
• Vanilla essence - 1/4 tsp

Eggless Royal Icing

• Powdered sugar - 1/2 cup
• Corn starch - 1 tsp
• Milk - 2 tsp
• Lemon juice - 1/2 tsp
• Food colours - red , yellow

PREPARATION

• Sieve wheat flour, all purpose flour, baking powder and salt  in one bowl.Mix well and keep it aside.
• In another bowl, add softened butter, powdered sugar, milk and vanilla essence and whisk till it becomes the creamy mixture.
• Then add flour mixture into creamy mixture and mix well to form a soft dough.
• If your not able to make dough out of the mixture, add 2 tsp of extra milk. But remember do not add more milk, you will not get right consistency of dough.
• Now roll out the cookies on the butter paper using chapathi roller till just about 1/4 inch of thickness.
• Then cut the cookies in your desired shape using your favourite cookie cutter.
• Take the cookies carefully using a ladle and place it on baking sheet and refrigerate it for 20 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 375 F and bake the cookies for 15 to 20 minutes or until you see edges turned to golden brown.
• Take out the cookies from oven and allow it to cool down completely.
• Once the cookies are fully cooled down, decorate them as the way you like.

For Making Eggless Royal Icing

• Combine powdered sugar and corn strach in the one bowl. Mix together well.
• Then add milk and lemon juice.Whisk everything well till you get smooth paste.
• Then divide the icing into equal portion in different bowls and add few drops of food colours in each bowl.
• Fill icing into icing bags and seal them properly.
• Royal icing is ready to decorate the cookies.