Method

1. Heat the oven to 180ºC
2. Cream the butter and sugar until fluffy and light in colour.
3. Add the vanilla essence and eggs, mixing well.
4. Sift all the dry ingredients together and add to the creamed mixture and mix thoroughly. Add the water if necessary.
5. Roll out to a thickness of 3mm and cut out into desired shapes.
6. Place on a greased baking tray and bake for 8 – 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack before icing.
7. Sift icing sugar. Beat egg white and add to icing sugar. Mix until a smooth piping consistency forms. It should be like toothpaste. Add lemon juice.
8. Spoon some white icing into a piping bag fitted with a small round nozzle or a small sandwich bag and push to one corner to make a piping bag. Snip off the corner and ice outlines on the cookies.
9. Divide the remaining icing and mix the colours you are using.
10. Thin the icing down to a consistency that can “Flood” the biscuit and fill in sections of colour.
11. Use a teaspoon to drop the icing into the areas and a toothpick to push it into corners and pop bubbles.
12. Use icing flowers or edible pearls to enhance the biscuits.
13. Paint faces on the bunnies using black or brown food colouring and a thin delicate brush. Use rose coloured powdered food coloring to blush the bunny’s cheeks.