Decorated Cut-Out Cookies Without Frosting - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 (17 1/2 ounce) package refrigerated sugar cookie dough
1/3 cup cream cheese, softened in microwave for 45 seconds
1 egg
1 teaspoon lemon extract
3 tablespoons cake flour
food coloring
milk

Preparation

In a large bowl, stir together all ingredients until they form a ball.
Chill for 30 minutes.
Remove 1/4 to 1/3 of the dough and set it aside in a sealed container.
Color the remaining cookie dough with green food coloring to desired color shade.
Roll cookie dough onto a parchment lined cookie sheet.
Cut trees with a tree shaped cookie cutter and remove the outside pieces of dough. (knead outside pieces into a ball so that you can redo this same process on the next cookie sheet).
Taking out the portion which you set aside in step #2, divide it up into small groups depending on the number of colors you want your balls/garland to be.
Color each small group with food coloring and add tiny amounts of milk until it gets to the consistency that it can be piped through a pastry/decorating bag.
Pipe your balls/and or garland colored cookie dough unto the unbaked trees. Bake in a preheated oven to 375 degrees Farenheit for about 12 minutes.
You will have beautifully decorated cookies without the added frosting and everyone will wonder how you did it.