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Before you start, grease two cookie sheets with cooking oil.
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Put the butter into a bowl and stir until it is creamy.
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Sift the powdered sugar in and stir until the mixture is smooth.
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Sift the flour into the bowl and stir it in with a wooden spoon.
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Then, using your hands, squeeze the mixture to make a dough.
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Flatten the dough a little before you wrap it.
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Wrap the dough in plastic food wrap and put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
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While the dough chills, preheat your oven to 350F.
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Dust a rolling pin and a clean work surface with a little flour.
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Don't use too much or the dough will get tough.
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Roll out the dough until it is about 1/4 inch thickness.
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Cut out lots of circles with the cookie cutter, Then, squeeze the scraps into a ball.
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Roll the ball out again, then cut out more circles.
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Place the circles onto the greased cookie sheets, about 6 on each.
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Bake the cookies for about 10-12 minutes.
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Remove the cookies from the oven and leave them on the sheets for about 2 minutes.
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Then, move them onto a wire rack using a spatula.
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Let them cool completely before you ice them.
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To begin the snowflake design, draw a line down the center of one cookie with the white writing icing.
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Draw two more lines crossing over the first one, so it sorta looks like an X with a line in the middle.
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Make the snowflake by adding small likes of writing icing across the ends of the lines.
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Try making them all a little different, since there are no snowflakes that are exactly alike.
