Lemon cookies

If you like lemons and the intense flavor of the lemon zest, these lemon cookies are for you. They are soft, buttery and full of lemon flavor.

I took the recipe from Preppy Kitchen.

Lemon cookies
Servings: 19 pieces
Chilling time: 30 min
Baking time: 15 min
Difficulty: medium

Ingredients

• 4 tbsp of lemon zest (from 3 lemons)
• 113 g of room temperature butter
• 100 g of sugar (I use less than in the original recipe)
• 240 g of flour
• a pinch of salt
• 2 tbsp of cornstarch
• 1 tsp of baking soda
• 1 egg
• 2 tbsp of lemon juice
• powder sugar and extra lemon juice for icing (optional)
• yellow food coloring (optional)

Directions

1. Mix the sugar with the lemon zest and let them sit to infuse, while you prepare the rest.
   
2. In a separate bowl mix the dry goods: flour, salt, cornstarch, baking soda.
   
3. Mix the butter with the sugar and zest. Mix in the egg and 2 tbsp of lemon juice. Add now the food coloring, if you opted for it.
   
   
4. Add the dry bowl over the butter one and mix well.
5. Let the dough rest in the fridge for min 30 min and up to 2 hours. This is important for both being able to shape the cookies, but also for not spreading too much in the oven.
6. Shape the dough into 19 balls and spread them evenly on a tray with baking paper, leaving space between them to spread.
   
7. Bake at 180 C for 15 min  (I bake it longer than original since I have a conventional oven). If you have convection oven, bake at 175 C for 10 min. They will spread beautifully.
   

   
8. Let them cool fully and transfer them on a cooling rack.
   
9. This is optional, but for the lemon lovers mix some powdered sugar with lemon juice and pour the icing on the cookies.