3 christmas biscuits cookies Recipes

plain flour, icing sugar, butter, cubed, chilled, egg, at room temperature, vanilla extract, milk, to mix, white royal icing , for piping designs or 4 oz glace icing, for icing the biscuits, edible glitter or edible sparkling cake dusting powder

amaretti biscuits (almond macaroons), dried figs, superfine sugar, plain white or italian type 00 flour, ground almonds, vanilla extract, grated zest of 1/2 an unwaxed lemon, baking powder, ground cinnamon, sultanas, egg white, dry white wine, icing sugar, for sprinkling