• Preheat the oven to 350°F. Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Whisk together dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
• In a mixing bowl, blend the butter and sugar until creamy and light.
• Add egg, almond extract, and vanilla extract.
• Mix well.
• Slowly add dry ingredients and mix until combined. The dough will be a little crumbly.
• Turn out the dough onto a surface sprinkled with powdered sugar or flour.
• Press into a ball and then roll out to ¼ inch thickness.
• Use a cross-shaped cookie cutter to cut each cookie. Carefully lift shaped cookies to the baking sheet.
• Using a flat spatula is recommended to help the cookies maintain their shape.
• Bake cookies for 7 to 9 minutes. Do not brown the cookies.
• Allow cookies to cool for at least 20 minutes on the baking sheet before carefully removing them to a cooling rack.
• After cooling, decorate with royal icing, (quick recipe below). While the icing is still wet, press the decorations into the cookies.

Easy Royal Icing

• Remove the lid and foil from the frosting can.
• Place the frosting can in the microwave for 30 seconds ( for a thicker royal icing) to 1 minute (thinner royal icing for flooding.) Stir well.
• Transfer to a piping bag and decorate the cookies. Add the flowers to the cross before the icing dries.