• Sift flour, baking powder and salt into medium bowl.
  2 cups unbleached all purpose flour, 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder, ¼ teaspoon salt
• Using electric mixer, beat butter, lemon peel and orange peel in large bowl until light.
  ¾ cup unsalted butter, room temperature, the zest of one lemon, the zest of 1 orange
• Add sugar and powdered sugar and beat until fluffy.
  ½ cup sugar, ¼ cup powdered sugar
• Beat in egg.
  1 large egg
• Add dry ingredients.
• Using spoon, stir until mixture forms dough (dough will be soft).
• Divide dough into thirds.
• Gather each third into a ball then flatten them into disks.
• Wrap each disk in plastic and refrigerate until firm, about 4 hours. (Can be prepared 2 days ahead. Keep refrigerated. Let soften slightly, if necessary, before rolling out.)
• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Remove dough from the fridge about 20 minutes before you are ready to roll it out. This helps soften it a bit for rolling.
• Generously flour work surface and rolling pin.
• Place 1 dough disk on work surface.
• Press rolling pin into dough several times to flatten slightly for easier rolling. Press together any cracks that form.
• Roll out dough to ⅛ inch thickness, frequently lifting and turning dough to prevent sticking. Using cookie cutters cut out cookies.
• Transfer cookies to ungreased nonstick baking sheets, spacing ½ inch apart.
• Bake until cookies turn brown on edges, about 10-15 minutes.
• Let cookies stand on sheets 1 minute. Using metal spatula, transfer cookies to racks and cool completely. Once cooled you can proceed to the decorating part!

Make the quick icing

• Mix powdered sugar, and 2 tablespoon of milk in a large shallow bowl.
  1 cup powdered sugar for icing, 4 tablespoon milk, icing sugar, sprinkles, white round candy balls
• Make sure all of the sugar lumps are gone and the consistency is nice and smooth but not watery.
• If it is watery just add 1 tablespoon of powdered sugar at a time until it thickens. If it is too thick add 1 tablespoon of milk at a time until it thins.
• If you are adding coloring, add your food coloring and mix well

Adding the icing (quick and easy way)

• Take your cooled cookies and place them face down into the bowl of icing and carefully pull it out and place it right side up on a cooling rack to dry.
• The cookies after being iced will need at least 2 hours (or more depending on humidity) to dry fully.