Heat oven to 400°F. Combine butter, sugar, egg and extract in mixer.

Blend at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy. Add flour and salt, and blend at low speed until well mixed.

To make the cookies, insert a 1M tip into pastry bag. Fill bag with cookie dough. If it's hard to pipe add the 1 tablespoon water. Warming the piping bag with your hands will help to pipe out the cookies. Pipe the dough in a rotated motion on to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

Bake for 5 to 8 minutes, or until slightly golden. Remove to a cookie rack and let cool.

Melt black candy melts in microwave as directed on the package. Carefully dip the cookies into the black candy melts and place on rack to dry. Sprinkle before drying with gold and silver star sprinkles and white confetti sprinkles.

Let fully dry and then store in air tight container. They will store nice for up to a week.