"Sugar" Cookies for Cut-Outs

These cookies can be cut into any shape and decorated with icing.

If you want to add color to the dough, use natural food colors.

One recipe Shortbread Butter Cookies dough

1. Make the dough according to the recipe.
2. Place a piece of parchment paper on a baking sheet and spread the dough out to desire thickness by patting it with your fingers. You can roll it out with a rolling pin if you want, but make sure to roll it on the parchment paper.
3. CHILL for at least 2 hours or up to 4 days. If you don't chill, the cookies will spread and lose their shapes.
4. After chilling, remove dough from the pan by pulling up the parchment paper. Leave the dough on the paper and put a new sheet of parchment paper in the pan. Put the cookie cutter right into the dough. Place cut outs on parchment paper in the pan. The dough will soften as you work with it, so CHILL AGAIN until firm before baking.
5. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
6. Remove cookies from refrigerator and place immediately in the oven. Bake for 20-30 minutes or until lightly browned around the edges. Thicker cookies need a little more time, very thin cookies need less.