Diamants ( Diamond Studded Circles)
colored sugars ( green red purple yellow etc)
1/2 cup sugar 3/4 cup of soft butter 1/2 tea vanilla 1 3/4 cups flour pinch of salt,egg yolk. Mix sugar and butter together till creamy. add vanilla add flour and salt. Do not overmix and roll dough into logs. Into the frig. Remove logs from frig and paint with egg yolk and roll on plate of colored sugar. Refrig again. Cut into thin circles and bake in hot oven 400 till the bottom of cookie is golden brown about 10 minutes

I make dozens of holiday cookies for family all over the US in holiday tins. These cookies provide alot of color and taste great and are easy to make. Others cookies in the repetoir include Chocolate Cracks,Pizzels, Orange Cranberry Oatmeal,Ginger, Thumb Prints.