Lemon cookies - Soft lemon cookies for tea - Lemon Crinkle Cookies - Lemon biscuits - بسكويت الليمون

Lemon Crinkle Cookies use simple ingredients to make the most delicious lemony treat for your tea or coffee. You should have most if not all of these ingredients already at home.
This recipe will serve at 16-18 lemony cookies
Ingredients
2 teaspoons Lemon zest, 2 lemons
150 g (3/4 cup) Granulated Sugar
1/2 cup (113g) Unsalted Butter, softened
1/2 teaspoon lemon extract (Optional)
1 large Egg
2 tbsp. (30 ml) lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 ½ (265 g) cups All-Purpose Flour
1/2 cup icing sugar (powdered sugar)
Yellow food coloring
Directions
1. Start with combining together lemon zest and sugar. Freshly grinded zest will give to a sugar oils and cookies will be more fragrant and lemony.
2. In a large bowl combine together softened butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
3. Add an egg, after 30 seconds add lemon juice and lemon extract and mix well, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
4. Add the salt, baking powder, baking soda and flour and mix until combined.
5. Add a food coloring few drops (optional)
6. Chill the dough for one hour. You can prepare the dough night before and leave it in the fridge till time you want to bake a cookies.
7. Preheat the oven to 165 C (350°F). Line a baking tray with parchment paper Set aside.
8. Roll the cookie dough into tablespoon sized balls, roll them in powdered sugar.
9. If the dough too soft after rolling you may need to cool it in a fridge for few minutes. The main trick is to place COLD rolled cookies to a preheated oven.
10. Bake for 10-12 minutes on 165 C (350F), medium rank. until they are just starting to slightly golden on the edges.
Pay attention! Do not over bake the cookies.
Let it cool before serving 😊
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I made them and they smell and taste delicious!

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[@shivie4]

Yummy 😋!

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