Color Pencil Cookies

Ingredients:

225 gm all purpose flour
100 gm butter
100 gm icng sugar
1 tbsp curd/ sour cream
1 egg yolk
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/2 tsp salt
food colorings

Preparation:

1. In a bowl, sift together flour and salt and keep it aside.
2. In a large bowl or in the bowl of electric mixer, add butter and icing sugar and beat on medium high speed until creamy.
3. Add the egg yolk and beat again until the yolk combines well.
4. Add the curd/ sour cream and vanilla essence and beat again until combined.
5. Add the flour mixture and beat on low speed until flour has been incorporated. Do not over beat.
6. Preheat the oven to 180 degree celcius. Line a baking sheet with baking paper/ parchment paper.
7. Divide the dough into 2 parts and further divide one of the part into 4 equal sized portions. 
8. Add drops of different shades of food gels/ colorings into each of the 4 equal portions and knead the dough well.
9. Roll the uncolored portion of the dough into a rectangle of 2 mm thickness on a lightly floured surface. (or roll it placing between two sheets of parchment paper).