Lemon butter cookies
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ½ | cup | Unsalted butter; room temp |
| ½ | cup | Sugar |
| 1 | Egg yolk | |
| ¼ | cup | Fresh lemon juice |
| 1½ | teaspoon | Grated lemon rind |
| pinch | Salt | |
| 14 | tablespoons | All-purpose flour; sifted |
| Powdered sugar | ||
Directions
Recipe by: Cooking with Bon Appetit - Cookies Preheat oven to 375F.
Grease baking sheets. Using electric mixer, cream butter and ½ cup sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in yolk, then lemon juice, lemon peel, and salt. Fold in flour. Drop batter by teaspoonfuls onto prepared sheets, spacing 2 inches apart. Bake until edges of cookies begin to brown, about 10 minutes. Cool slightly on baking sheets.
Transfer to rack. dust with powdered sugar and cool. Store in airtight container.
Makes about 3 dozen.