Super Mario Bros. Lemony Super Star Cookies

• 2 sticks butter softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• lemon juice anything between 1 tsp. to 1 tbsp., to taste
• chocolate chips or Candy Melts for the eyes
• glaze : 1 1/2 cups powdered, confectioner's sugar
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice
• gel food coloring yellow

1. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Cream your butter and sugar together in a large bowl with an electric mixer.
3. Beat in the vanilla and egg. Set this bowl aside.
4. Combine your flour and baking powder together in another bowl.
5. Add the flour mixture to your first bowl about one cup at a time, mixing well after each addition. This is going to be a very stiff dough; you'll have to blend the last cup of flour by hand.
6. Divide your dough into two balls.
7. Flour your work surface and roll each ball into a circle about 12 inches in diameter and 1/8 inch thick.
8. Cut your cookies into stars, dipping your cookie cutters in flour before each use.
9. Carefully remove the excess dough and transfer cookies to your ungreased baking sheet.
10. Bake cookies on the middle rack of your oven for 6 to 10 minutes, or until the tips of the stars are lightly browned. Each of my two trays took about 8 minutes.
11. Allow to cool for 2-3 minutes before transferring to cooling rack, parchment paper, or equivalent.
12. In a small bowl stir together your powdered sugar and lemon juice. The goal here is a thick, but pourable glaze. You may need to adjust your lemon juice accordingly.
13. Add yellow gel food coloring, enough to make a bright yellow glaze. Mix well.
14. Hold each cookie by the inner edges and dip the cookie 'face' into the glaze. Some light shaking to remove excess glaze will be in order. If you have any cookies too large to dip, take a small spoonful of glaze and apply directly to the cookie.
15. Allow glaze to set, about 1 hour.
16. Melt chocolate chips or Candy Melts in the microwave; transfer melted chocolate to a plastic sandwich baggie and snip a small hole in one of the bottom corners of the bag. Working carefully, pipe two chocolate eyes on each cookie. My large cookies required a double wide line whereas the smaller cookies used a substantially smaller amount.

butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, baking powder, allpurpose, lemon juice anything between, chocolate chips, powdered, lemon juice, gel food coloring yellow

Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Super-Mario-Bros_-Lemony-Super-Star-Cookies-1231345 (may not work)