Preheat the oven at 180 °c. Lightly grease your oven trays. In a bowl cream the butter and sugar together.

Add the eggs and vanilla to the butter mixture and beat well.

Sift in the flour, salt and baking powder.

Mix till it forms a soft dough. Roll the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and cut into desired shapes.Place the shaped dough onto the trays, spacing them apart,decorate if needed and bake for 10mins till lightly brown.