Instructions

Cookie Directions:

• Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth not grainy to the touch in a mixing bowl.
• Add eggs...Continue to mix.
• Add the vanilla.. Continue mixing.
• Sift the four, baking soda, and salt together.
• Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture.
• Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
• Make the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling wrap completely covering the entire dough ball.
• Put in the refrigerator for about 6 hours or overnight. Check to see if the dough is firm.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Pull the cookie dough out of the refrigerator and sit it out to soften up a bit.
• Put flour out on the cutting board, rub flour on the rolling pin, and work some flour intothe batter. (if needed).
• Roll the dough out on the cutting board and using the cookie cutter begin to make your cookies.
• Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
• Using a metal spatula move the cut cookies to the parchment lined cookiesheet.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes. Check to see if the cookies are thoroughly baked.
• Take the cookies off of the cookie sheet and put on a wire rack to cool completely.(About 10 minutes).

Icing Directions:

• Combine all ingredients except the colors into a standing mixing bowl.
• Mix on medium speed onto stiff peaks form
• Split into 4 bowls
• Leaving one bowl white, add the colors to 1 of the 3 bowls, red in one blue in the other and black in the last.
• Using the piping bags, add a little bit off the colors to 1 of each bag.
• With red and blue icing remaining in the bowls, add 1 tsp of water to thin out the icing. 
• Pour icing into a squeeze bottle
• Outline the fish in black icing
• Fill in the outline with the thin red or blue icing and let sit on a cookie sheet for 4 hours
• Using your edible marker, add some shading to the top fin, the tips of the tails and the middle part of the fish. 
• Then add a half smile and outline of the eyes
• After, add the flipper with some shading
• Use the white icing, add a small dot for the fishes eye
• Then use the black icing, add the pupil
• Let sit for another hour