Cream together sugar, butter, vanilla, and egg.

Then add in the baking soda, cream of tarter, and flour.

Use a spoon to mix and then use hands to mix some more until able to form into a ball.

Place in a Ziploc bag and refrigerate for one hour.

Pull out and let sit out for 30 minutes.

Use rolling pin and roll out dough onto a floured surface.

Using your cookie cutter begin to cut out your cookies and place them on a un-greased cookie pan

Preheat oven to 350

Bake for 14-16 minutes

Remove from oven and let sit for 1 hour before frosting

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Combine into a mixing bowl and mix until stiff peaks form.

You can use a hand mixer or stand mixer

If no peaks are forming add in more powder sugar.

Decorating the cookies

Use a plague or a square cookie cutter ( Hobby Lobby or any major box chain store )

Print out on the computer the faces from Inside Out characters I would suggest 4 of each one on one sheet of paper as seen

Place the print out on a cookie pan and tape it down

Cover the paper on the pan with wax paper and tape that down also

You do not want movement while decorating

Take you icing a food coloring and mix into separate bowls of each color you will need. I would suggest doing ONLY 1 character at a time.

Fill each color into a plastic icing tube pictured below

Trace the picture with the icing. I suggest doing the color that shows the most first. Its just like when you and you had paint by numbers.

Once the art piece is done let sit for 4 hours

Trace the outside of the cookie with a white, then "flood" the inside of the cookie with more white to cover the whole cookie

use a butter knife to evenly spread the icing let sit 2 hours

Remove the art piece VERY CAREFULLY and place it int he center of the cookie the white royal icing will be a glue and it will sink into the icing to look like one solid piece.

Let sit for 4 hours.... If it is humid or rainy it will take longer