• Start by milling your soft white wheat berries.
• In your stand mixer fit with a roller or similar attachment, add the room temperature butter and cream until smooth.
• Add powdered sugar. Be sure to sift your powdered sugar if it is lumpy.
• Crack one egg into the mixture. Mix just until combined.
• Add salt to your flour and slowly scoop into the mixer. Mix on low speed adding one scoop at a time until all flour has been added.
• Finally, add almond extract and mix a few more seconds until combined.
• Scoop dough between 2 pieces of floured parchment paper. Roll out dough until 1/4-1/2" thick depending on your preference. Place the dough in the refrigerator to chill for at least 30 minutes.
• Remove dough from the fridge and cut into desired shapes. Place cut out cookies on a parchment lined sheet pan.
• Roll out dough scraps after cutting out the first shapes and cut shapes out of the remaining dough.
• Place cutouts into the refrigerator for 20 more minutes while you preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
• Bake for 6 minutes, rotate and bake an additional 6 minutes. You do not want to over bake your cookies so they stay soft! they should be slightly brown around the edges only.
• Remove from the hot pan and place on a wire cooling rack so they do not continue to bake once they are removed from the oven.
• Allow to cool completely before decorating.
• Make your icing while they cool.

Royal Icing

• Start by separating three eggs and place only the whites into a bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment.
• Add almond extract and whisk just until the whites are fluffy.
• Slowly add 4 cups of sifted powdered sugar to the egg whites, 1/4 cup at a time. Scrape down the sides as needed.
• Increase the speed once all the sugar has been added. Whisk on medium high speed for 3-5 minutes until soft peaks have formed.
• The icing at the phase will be thick and should be used to outline cookies are create designs that do not need to fill in or smooth out. When you are ready to "flood" in a design, you will want to add water to thin out the icing.
• Divide icing into small bowls and color as desired based on the designs you will create!