Cream: 1 cup butter 1 cup sugar Beat in: 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla 1 Tblsp milk Add and mix well: 2 3/4 cup flour 1 tsp bkg pwdr 1/4 tsp salt Chill dough several hours. Roll and cut. Paint with clean brushes before baking. Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes Paint Crack one egg and beat with a little water to thin. Divide into small containers (muffin pans work well). Add food coloring to each container. Mix well. Paint cookies, washing brushes well before dipping in a new color. For more intense colors use less water or even just the egg yolk. A little paint goes a long way and sugar sprinkled over the painted cookies before baking is very pretty. The cookie recipe is from the Messiah, Hales Corners cookbook. It is Lisa Lisaks and best sugar cookie recipe I have used. Cookies come out flat and the paint shows up nicely with little cracking during baking.