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| The picture of the cookies I made is not very good, so here's a more inspirational picture that makes you want to make these, compliments of Taste of Home. |
TOTAL TIME: Prep: 25 min. + chilling Bake: 10 min./batch + cooling
MAKES: 28 servings
Ingredients
3/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon grated lemon peel
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cornstarch
1/4 cup colored nonpareils
LEMON ICING:
1 cup confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon grated lemon peel
Directions
In a small bowl, cream butter and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in lemon peel. Combine flour and cornstarch; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or until easy to handle.
Shape into a 1-3/4-in.-diameter roll; roll in nonpareils. Wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 2-3 hours or until firm.
Preheat oven to 375°. Unwrap and cut into 1/4-in. slices. Place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake 9-11 minutes or until set and edges are lightly browned. Cool 1 minute before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
In a small bowl, combine icing ingredients. Spread over cookies. Yield: 28 cookies.
These cookies have potential to be good and quite pretty. I pretty much ruined them by overcooking both cookie sheets. They were crunchy and almost burnt. The next day however, the cookies had sucked up the moisture from the icing (the icing was delicious and easy), and they were softer and better. I also found it rather difficult to roll the log in sprinkles. I'll have to try a different method of that next time. I didn't use lemon zest. I keep a bottle of lemon juice in the fridge for all my lemon flavor needs. It just seems expensive to buy lemons for the zest, although I'm sure they would be better with it.
tl;dr: Because of my inability to make these properly, the cookies deserve another chance.
First comment! I have all the ingredients to make these, but I'm expecting a package with heart shaped cookies in it today, so I'll have to hold off. Plus, I should probably focus on the five loads of laundry I need to do today so we can pack. I'll keep these on my radar, though.
ReplyDeleteNow i'm afraid you wont get it today. That would be sad!
ReplyDeleteYum!! Ben loves lemon, so I should try these.
ReplyDeleteShould have made the cookies. We didn't get the package and our flight was canceled.
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ReplyDeleteDid you use tl;dr because of the 100 Hour Board? There was just a question about a writer that uses that. I hadn't ever seen it before that.
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