* 250g butter (let it soften at room tempreture).
* 300g all purpose flour
* 130g castor sugar
* 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
* 2 table spoon of cocoa powder
* 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract (optional)

Mixed the flour, sugar, baking powder, cocoa powder in a big bowl, add in the butter, use hand to mix the ingredient, then add in the vanilla extract. Knead until the dough started to form (add a bit flour if you think it is too soft), wrap it in the cling film, store in teh fridge for 1/2 an hour.

After half an hour, take the dough out, roll it flat on the board (add some flour on teh board to avoid sticking), use the cookies cutter cut out the shape. lay the cut out dough on the baking sheet, dust some castor sugar or any other colours sweets.

Bake at 200℃ for about 10 minutes, transfer the cookies to the cooling wire, store it in air tight container after all cool down.

*be careful when transfer the cookies to cooling wire, the cookies still a bit soft when fresh from oven.