• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Using a standing mixer, cream together the butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, and egg together until creamy and combined.
• In a large bowl, mix together the flour, cream of tartar and baking soda
• Gradually mix in the flour mixture into the wet ingredients until combined and a dough forms
• Once the dough is formed, sprinkle about 3 tablespoons of flour onto a cutting board and place the dough onto the cutting board.
• Sprinkle some flour onto the cookie dough and roll out the dough to about 2 inches thick
• Cut out your cookies and place them onto the cookie sheet
• Bake your cookies for about 8 minutes
• Let them cool completely

Royal icing directions

• Using a standing mixer, combine all ingredients and mix on medium to high speed until thick and stiff with peaks of about 6-7 minutes
• If your icing looks like yellow soup, add another cup of powdered sugar
• Once your icing is made, Scoop some white icing into one piping bag and set aside
• Scoop some more icing into a bowl and add in about 2 – 3 tbsp water and mix until combined.
• Pour into a squeeze bottle and set aside
• Scoop some icing, about 3/4 up, into a bowl and add ivory food coloring, about 2-3 drops, and mix until combined. You want a light ivory color comparable to pasta noodles
• Scoop the ivory icing into the piping bag
• Using the remaining icing, add in red food coloring and mix until combined. Add in a few more drops of red food coloring to get the shade you want.
• Scoop a small amount into the piping bag and set aside

Decorating directions:

• Using the white icing in the piping bag, pipe a line around the edges of the cookies and fill in with the white squeeze bottles.
• Using the white icing in the piping bag, pipe a line around the edges of the cookies and fill in with the white squeeze bottles.
• Once your cookies are dry, using the ivory piping bag pipe out noodles by holding the piping bag 1 inch up from the cookie that way when you squeeze the bag, the icing will come out in strings and fall onto the cookie. Make sure to move your hand to the position where you want the noodles to be.
• Let the first layer of noodles dry for an hour before putting on the second layer
• Once the second layer is one wait another hour.
• Once that hour is up, pipe out a glob of red icing onto the pasta for pasta sauce
• Cut your chocolate in half and place it into the middle of the red icing for your meatballs
• Let cookies dry for another hour before enjoying them!