one dough four bisciuts!

I took a basic sugar cookie recipe: (250g dairy free butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1/2 tsp vanilla extract, 3 cups flour, 1 1/2 tsp baking powder and 1/2 tsp salt) kneaded the dough into a smooth ball, adn put it into the fridge to chill. After around an hour, i took the dough out, and divided it into 4 smaller batches. I put 3 of these smaller balls back into the fridge, and added 1/3 cup of cocoa to the first dough. When the cocoa was evenly distributed into the dough, i put it into the fridge to rest again, and took out another ball. To this (the 2nd ball) i added 40g of well chopped pistachio nuts. Again i kneaded the dough so that the nuts were well distibuted, then back into the fridge. The next ball, i added the juice of half a lemon, and 2 drops of yellow food colour, as with the other two, i kneaded the extra ingredient in well, and replaced it in the fridge. The last ball, i left alone. An hour later i took the doughs out, one at a time, and rolled it out.

 I had some small cookie cutters in different shapes, and i thought it would be fun to make each differnet flavour, into a different shape. Into the oven the cookies went for 15 mins, and then i cooled on a cooling rack. When the cookies were cooled, the fun REALLY began :) The cocoa cookies i sandwiched together with a chocolate icing (1 tbsp cocoa, 100g icing sugar and  50g dairy free butter) to make mini bourbon cream biscuits...the lemon cookies, i iced with a lemon glaze (100g icing sugar, juice of 1/2 lemon and 3 drops of yellow food icing) the plain sugar cookies i drizzled with a simple icing (100g sugar, 3 teaspoons water) and the pistachio cookies i just rolled them in icing sugar.

 All the cookies were a hit with the children, which is, of course, the most important thing, but i also think that the small size of the cookies would make them perfect for serving at a tea, with bone china teacups :D