Cookie Day

Mike's side of the family has a tradition they call "cookie day".  It's a day dedicated to the making of that heavily frosted kind of Christmas cookie, which I find really fun to make but too sweet to eat.  We really love our cookie day, but this year we aimed to reduce inventory to an ingestible possibility so we halved the recipe.  While cookie day flew by, we are happy with the smaller stock pile!  We use Mark Bitman's refrigerator cookie dough recipe (and really like the flavor) but the colored icing involves a comma inducing level of powdered sugar (which makes the whole cookie too sweet for my tastes).  If you know how to make a colored frosting without so much sugar, speak up!!!