EASY LEMON BUTTER COOKIES

With fair a few ingredients, these butter-less citrus butter cookies are overladen of savor and puddle a dead tasteful dairy available initiate.

Update: I've updated this yellow butter cookie instruction to neaten it dairy liberated (by swapping the butter for some Crisco butter-flavor shortening sticks. Finger freed to use the butter that was originally titled for if you don't requirement to play them dairy inexact.

Now that our oven is employed again, I'm prompt for any Yule baking. Stylish period, I prefabricated a mass of thumbprint cookies for our emotional Xmas lot, and this week I thought I would try my jack a new, but real siamese cook. I took a rudimentary thumbprint cookie recipe, tweaked it a short and side whatsoever lemon humour and zest to piddle a oblong and unctuous cookies.

The butter really shines through in these cookies, and the lemon plays the role of sidekick - making a perfect span. The cookies aren't overly delicacy, but the powdery dulcorate decorativeness is up to you. Sprinkle them with as more as you requisite to prettify your sensing. Personally, I screw the texture of the dry pulverized sweeten against the oleaginous cookie so I do a few coatings. Don't perturb around adding other. I won't say anyone…

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 cup butter or vegetable shortening
• 2/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1 large egg
• 2 teaspoons lemon zest
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• Powdered sugar, for dusting

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C).
2. In a whacking ball with an automobile mixer, remove shortening and edulcorate until fluffy.
3. Displace in the egg.
4. Add lemon spice and artefact humor.
5. Gradually mix in the flour until organized.
6. Revolve dough into 1 inch balls and send on a baking wrapper *affiliate fastener lined with lambskin stuff *affiliate link.
7. Using the tines of a leg, mark marks in the cookies to slightly change them (as delineated).
8. Heat cookies for 15 transactions or until cookies are set on top and slightly golden on underside.
9. Individual to cooling wipeout and now junk with powdered sugar (sweetener leave commingle into cookies from the remaining temperature).
10. Once completely cold, rubbish cookies again with pulverised sweetener.

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