Makes: Approximately 20 small stars. Size as seen above.

ingredients

• 1/4 cup unsalted butter

• 1/2 cup white granulated sugar

• 1/2 tsp bourbon vanilla paste

• 1 small egg

• 1 cup AP flour

• 1/4 tsp baking powder

• Pinch of sea salt

• 1 sachet of Crystal Light lime flavour

• 4 tsp ground pistachio powder

• Purple, green, and blue food colouring (optional)

method

• Beat the butter and sugar in a medium bowl till the mixture is fluffy, pale, and creamy.

• Add in the vanilla and egg. Beat again to form a cohesive mixture.

• Mix all the dry ingredients together in a separate bowl. Sift this mixture into the wet mixture in parts, and fold with a spatula till it forms a thick dough.

• Divide this dough into 3 parts and add food colouring drops of your choice to each third. Preheat the oven to 325 F.

• Roll each piece of dough and flatten to a disk. Cover with plastic wrap and chill in the fridge for 10-15 minutes.

• Take out the dough, roll out each disk to about 1/6-inch thickness and cut shapes of your choice with a cookie cutter. Layer the shapes over each other to make a cookie shape of your choice. Chill these cut out cookies again for 10 minutes.

• Bake for 8-10 minutes, until the edges of the cookies slightly brown. Take out the tray and leave the cookies on it for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack. Cool completely at room temperature before eating or decorating further!