How To Make Buttery Lemon Shortbread Cookies
These Buttery Lemon Shortbread Cookies are light and packed with flavor and a zesty hint from its sweet lemon glaze slathered over the soft cookies.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Cookies:
- 2cupsbutter,softened
- 1cuppowdered sugar
- lemon zest,(from 1 lemon)
- lemon juice,(from 1 lemon)
- 4cupsflour,plus extra for surface when rolling the cookies
- ½tspsalt
- ½tspbaking powder
For Glaze:
- 3tbsplemon juice
- 1cuppowdered sugar
- lemon zest,(from 1 lemon)
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
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In a stand mixer or using a hand mixer, add the butter and beat until fluffy.
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Add in the powdered sugar, zest of 1 lemon, and juice of 1 lemon.
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In a medium-sized bowl, combine the flour, salt, and baking powder.
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Slowly add it to the butter mixture and mix until combined.
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Add the dough to a lightly floured surface and roll it out to ¼-inch thick.
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Using a round cookie cutter, cut out the cookies and lay them onto a baking sheet.
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Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly brown.
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Remove and let cool.
Glaze:
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In a small bowl, whisk the lemon juice, powdered sugar, and zest of 1 lemon.
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Dip the top of each cookie into the glaze and place it on a wire rack to set.
Nutrition
- Calories: 250.83kcal
- Fat: 15.55g
- Saturated Fat: 9.75g
- Trans Fat: 0.62g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 3.99g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.66g
- Carbohydrates: 26.04g
- Fiber: 0.57g
- Sugar: 9.90g
- Protein: 2.32g
- Cholesterol: 40.67mg
- Sodium: 58.73mg
- Calcium: 14.97mg
- Potassium: 29.01mg
- Iron: 0.27mg
- Vitamin A: 129.39µg
- Vitamin C: 0.74mg
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