Melt in your mouth Lemon Cookies!

Another recipe for you ladies to try. It is a recipe for Lemon Sugar cookies. I hesitated at this, mostly because we make original sugar cookies and I wasn't to sure if my brother's and sister's would like them. Anyway if you want a dessert that melts-in-you-mouth and that is fluffy, soft and soooo delicious this is the one. Start off with 1 stick of butter at room temp.

Next a 1/4 cup of shortening.

1 cup of sugar.

Next zest 1 whole lemon and spoon up the peelings, this should amount to 1 tbsp. 

Mix it all together so that it looks creamy about 4 minutes.

Crack in 1 egg..

and pour in 1 tsp of vanilla. Mix it again so that the egg is in incorporated.

Next comes your flour mixture, I did this all before hand in my mixture, but you can just do it in a bowl.

2 1/2 cups of flour, 2 tsp of cornstarch, 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder....

And a shake, shake of salt.

So once you have your flour mixture done, start incorporating it into your "wet" mixture. You can pour it in while the mixer is going, or just dump it all in.

Next scoop your dough into an airtight container and refrigerate it for 1 to 2 hours. The longer you let it set, the better the consistency.

Preheat your oven to 375', and pull out your dough from the fridge. Your dough should have a sugar cookie consistency now. Roll the dough out on a floured surface, and then cook them for 8-10 minutes.

Meanwhile you can get started on your frosting. 1/3 cup of butter( room temp) 2 1/2 cups of powdered sugar, 1/2 tsp of lemon extract, 2 1/2- 3 Tbsp of fresh lemon juice. Mix this all together till light and fluffy. Simple ingredients but delicious frosting!

Once your cookies come out, let them cool before frosting. Once cool, frost them, and if you would like, decorate them with some simple colored sugar sprinkles.  Another delicious dessert recipe, especially for those Lemon lovers!!!!!