Bra Biscuits for Breast Cancer Awareness

The 25th of October is the official day to host a Breast Cancer Awareness Breakfast.  I'm hosting a little morning tea among my friend's at school; and so I made these.  The recipe comes from none other than the fabulous Miss Nigella Lawson.  She calls them her "Butter Cut Out Biscuits" - but for my purposes I shall name these "Bra Biscuits."
Also, I want to dedicate this post to those women who have been affected by breast cancer.  Every day, 7 women die from breast cancer.  Through fundraising and creating awareness, we can all do our bit to reduce this terrible statistic.  All of us with baking and food blogs have great skills - I challenge you to somehow put them to use to raise awareness for breast cancer.

Ingredients
175g unsalted butter, soft
200g caster sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
400g plain flour, preferably Italian 00
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt

Method
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees (fan-forced).  Cream the butter and sugar until pale and moving towards moussiness, then beat in eggs and vanilla.  In another bowl, combine flour, powder and salt.  Add dry ingredients to butter and eggs, and mix gently but surely.  If you think mixture is too sticky to be rolled out, add more flour, but do so sparingly as this makes the dough tougher.  Halve the dough, form into fat discs, wrap each in clingwrap and rest in fridge for at least 1 hour.  Sprinkle some flour on board, place 1 disc of dough on board (leave other in fridge) and roll out to about 1/2cm thickness.  Cut your desired shapes (I used a love heart) and place them a little apart on baking trays.  Bake for 8-12 minutes, by which time they will be lightly golden around the edges.  Cool on rack and continue with the rest of the dough.  When they're all fully cooled, you can get on with the icing. (Following recipe for Icing is not from Nigella Lawson)

Ingredients for Icing
2 cup icing sugar
2 egg whites
1 1/2 tsp lemon juice
+ desired colour
+ desired decorations

Method
Whisk together the icing sugar, egg and lemon. Apply to cookies before the icing sets.