In large bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Mix in eggs and extract until well combined - but do not over beat the egg.

In a separate bowl, whisk together remaining ingredients.

Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients in batches until well combined.

Divide dough into quarters, form into discs, and wrap each in plastic wrap. Chill for at least 2 hours.

Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.

Remove one disc from fridge and roll out on floured surface until dough is 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick.

Cut dough with cookie cutter and bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 6-8 minutes, watching closely. Cookies are done when bottoms are just barely golden brown.

Let cool completely on wire rack before frosting. Make sure cookie sheets are completely cool to the touch before baking more cookies.

Frost cookies with Royal Frosting once cookies are completely cool.