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Cream sugar and butter until fluffy, about 5 minutes.
Add eggs and extracts. Make sure to warm the eggs or the mixture might curdle.
Mix dry ingredients in separate bowl and add to butter mixture. Mix well.
Put a handful of the freshly made dough between two sheets of parchment paper and roll to ⅛ inch thickness.
Repeat with the rest of the dough.
Stack up the adorable sheets of dough and put it on a cookie sheet and refrigerate for as long as you need to.
When its firm, peel off the top sheet, cut the dough, and move directly onto parchment lined baking sheets.
Gather up the scraps, sandwich in parchment again, roll it out, and put back in fridge as you do the next sheet.
Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes or until the cookies just start to turn a light tan on the edges.
Remove parchment to rack or marble to cool for a couple minutes before carefully moving onto racks to cool thoroughly before decorating.
For Royal Icing: Beat all ingredients at low speed for 7 to 10 minutes, or until icing forms peaks.
Keep icing covered with a wet kitchen towel at all times.