Christmas Cookies - No icing required!

Baking cookies is always such fun but the cookies themselves can be boring. This is quickly addressed with some icing and ta-da, you have beautiful cookies ready for the biscuit tin. However in South Africa, Christmas time is summer time so icing melts and gets sticky, the designs (which you spend hours on) is distorted and soon you are grumbling ba-humbug. But here is another easy idea from Martha Steward's Easy Food Magazine (December 2012 issue - available form zinio.com) for beautifully decorated cookies, no icing required!