How to Make Quick Soft Lemon Cookies

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, soft lemon cookies. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Soft Lemon Cookies is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Soft Lemon Cookies is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

These delicious cookies have a kick of lemon flavor, and they're made from scratch rather than a box mix like the majority of recipes out there. This recipe was created because I absolutely love lemon-flavored desserts, but have an allergy to artificial colorants and dyes used in food. Dessert Cookie Lemon These soft, chewy cookies are for lemon lovers only! They're made with a triple punch of lemon: lemon juice, zest, and extract.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook soft lemon cookies using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Soft Lemon Cookies:

1. Prepare 100 g Butter *softened
2. Prepare 1/2 cup Caster Sugar
3. Get 1 Egg Yolk
4. Make ready *Note: You can use whole Egg. In that case, you need to add extra Flour
5. Prepare Zest and Juice of 1 Lemon
6. Take 1 cup (*250ml) Self-Raising Flour *and extra 3-4 tablespoons if you use whole Egg
7. Prepare 3-4 tablespoons Icing Sugar for coating

If you are fond of my key lime cookies, you are going to LOVE these lemon cookies. They are SOFT and CHEWY with a CRISPY, SUGARY top that's to die for. Baking soda - Using baking soda and baking powder, your cookies will be perfectly soft and raise properly when baking. Baking powder - This is an excellent pairing with the baking soda to make them turn out beautiful every time.

Steps to make Soft Lemon Cookies:

1. Mix softened Butter and Sugar until smooth. Add Egg Yolk (OR Whole Egg) and mix until creamy. Add Lemon Zest and Juice, and mix well. It may look curdled.
2. Add Self-Raising Flour, mix to combine. At this stage, the dough is too soft to roll. Place in the fridge for a while to firm up.
3. Preheat oven to 170 to 180C. Line a large baking tray (OR 2 trays) with baking paper.
4. Roll the dough into 20 balls, about 3cm size. Then roll the balls in Icing Sugar to coat well, and place on the prepared tray(s). Cookies need plenty space around each.
5. Bake for about 15 minutes or until lightly golden. Cool on wire racks.

Baking soda - Using baking soda and baking powder, your cookies will be perfectly soft and raise properly when baking. Baking powder - This is an excellent pairing with the baking soda to make them turn out beautiful every time. Salt - Just a little bit of salt to counter the tangy lemon flavors. Sugar cookies are probably the most iconic cookie only behind chocolate chip. And just like chocolate chip, they have many different variations.

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