Lemon Shortbread Cookies
Lemon Shortbread Cookies: Literally the best cookies ever! These light, buttery cookies offer a subtle lemon flavor, and are topped with a bright and vibrant lemon glaze, giving you a mouthful of delicious goodness. These are special cookies.
Servings: 18
Calories: 206kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter (softened)
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 Tbs lemon juice fresh
- 1 pinch of salt
- 2 1/2 cups of All Purpose Flour
Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 1/2 Tbs lemon juice fresh
- 1/2 tbs milk 2%
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees
- In a mixer, mix together your butter and powdered sugar and lemon juice.
- When it is incorporated add in the salt and mix again.
- Then sift and add in the flour, and mix for a couple minutes. It will look like sand. Keep mixing and it will start to be more cohesive.
- Using your hands kind of squash it together to form a ball.
- Roll it out on a smooth surface using a rolling pin until it is about 3/4 a centimeter thickness.
- Use a round Cookie Cutteror biscuit cutter to form cookies.
- Transfer to a lined baking sheet. I used a pancake turner to transfer cookies from counter to pan without them falling apart or getting messed up.
- Bake on an un-greased baking sheet for 6 minutes. (do not brown)
- Let cool on pan 1 minute
- Move to a cooling rack
- Mix together glaze by whisking all ingredients together in a medium sized bowl.
- Glaze cookies by spooning glaze over the top, then let cool until glaze firms up.
- Lemon Zester a little lemon on top (optional)
- This makes 18 cookies
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Nutrition
Calories: 206kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 27mg | Sodium: 93mg | Potassium: 21mg | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 315IU | Vitamin C: 1.2mg | Calcium: 6mg | Iron: 0.8mg