Recipe: Delicious Lemon Cookies

Lemon Cookies.

You can have Lemon Cookies using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Lemon Cookies

1. You need 1/4 cups of butter.
2. You need 1/2 cup of granulated sugar.
3. It's 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
4. Prepare 1 of small egg (or half of a big egg).
5. It's 1 tsp of lemon zest.
6. Prepare 1 tbsp of lemon juice (freshly squeezed).
7. It's pinch of salt.
8. You need 1/4 tsp of baking powder.
9. It's 3/4 cups of flour.
10. Prepare 1/4 cups of powdered sugar.

Lemon Cookies instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350F/180C. Cover the baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside..
2. In a large bowl, cream butter (1/4 cup) and sugar (1/2 cup) together until light and fluffy. Whip in vanilla (1/2 tsp), 1 small egg (or whisk a big egg and add half), 1 tsp lemon zest and 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice. Scrape sides and mix again..
3. Stir in 3/4 cups flour, a pinch of salt, and 1/4 tsp baking powder slowly until just combined. Scrape sides of the bowl and mix again briefly..
4. Pour powdered sugar onto a large plate. Roll a teaspoon of dough into a ball and roll in powdered sugar. Place on the baking sheet and repeat with remaining dough..
5. Bake for 9-11 minutes or until bottoms begin to barely brown and cookies look matte (not melty or shiny). Remove from oven and cool cookies about 3 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack..

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