Lemon Lover Cookies


















3/4 cup butter, softened
3 tbsp sugar
2 tsp lemon juice
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cornstarch
1 tsp grated lemon peel

Lemon Frosting
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 cup confectioners sugar
2 tsp lemon juice
1 tsp grated lemon peel

1. In a small bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy; about 5 minutes.  Beat in lemon juice.  Combine the flour, cornstarch and lemon peel; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well.
2. Shape into a 1-1/2 roll; wrap in plastic wrap.  Refrigerate for 1 hour or until firm.  Unwrap and cut into 1/4 inch slices.  Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.
3. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes or until edges are golden brown.  Cool for 3 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
Frosting
4. In a small bowl, beat butter until fluffy.  Add the confectioners sugar, lemon juice and peel; beat until smooth.  Spread over cooled cookies; sprinkle with additional lemon peel if desired.  Let stand until set.  Store in airtight container.

Tips/Tricks/Notes

Being an avid lemon lover this recipe was a must try.  After completing the cookie dough and baking the cookies I felt I had missed something, but I tasted a cookie before icing and it tasted perfect.  Later on in the afternoon well making another recipe I discovered I miss read the measurements on the package of my butter.  Here I had under measured the butter for this recipe.  Although I had made this mistake the cookies still turned out well, and healthier with less butter!  I was very shocked with my mistake as I am a stickler for double and triple checking everything, but mistakes can still be made!  

Recipe adjustment: Instead of garnishing cookies with lemon peel, I decided to add yellow food colouring to the icing.  I added 4 drops of yellow to get the nice light yellow you see in the pictures above.  I also used an decorating tip for easy icing of the cookies. 

The picture seen above is an actual picture I took of my completed cookies, it is not taken from the internet or played with in anyway.