Since spring seems to be right around the corner, I thought I would share these bright and colorful butterfly cookies. They are sugar cookies decorated with royal icing.
The royal icing recipe I used can be found here and the sugar cookie recipe can be found here.
I noticed that using the best ingredients, such as real butter and a high quality vanilla will produce the best tasting sugar cookies. When I was a child, we always used grocery store bought vanilla and I could never really smell it after the cookies were baked. I didn`t know the difference at the time, but after using Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla
and some other premium varieties, the cookies were more fragrant and I could really taste the vanilla. 
