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Crisp Lemon Cookies Recipe

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These light, citrus cookies are a nice change of pace from typical Christmas cookies. Melted vanilla chips drizzled over the top is the fantastic finishing touch. —Darlene Dixon, Hanover, Minnesota

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Crisp Lemon Cookies Recipe

Prep: 30 min. Bake: 15 min./batch + cooling

Yield: 54 Servings

30 15 45

Ingredients

1-1/3 cups butter, softened
2 cups confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup vanilla or white chips, melted

Directions

In a large bowl, cream butter and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the lemon juice, peel and vanilla. Gradually add flour and mix well.
Shape dough into 1-in. balls. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Coat the bottom of a glass with cooking spray; dip in sugar. Flatten cookies with glass, redipping in sugar as needed.
Bake at 325° for 11-13 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool. Drizzle with melted vanilla chips. Yield: about 4-1/2 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 1 cookie equals 99 calories, 5 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 12 mg cholesterol, 34 mg sodium, 12 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 1 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1 starch, 1 fat.

Originally published as Crisp Lemon Cookies in Taste of Home Christmas Annual Annual 2009, p121

Sweet White Wine

Enjoy this recipe with a sweet white wine such as Moscato or a sweet Riesling.

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Reviewed on Dec. 15, 2011 by DietFiasco

These are my favorite!

Reviewed on Dec. 13, 2011 by njshoop

My Dad's FAVORITE cookie! I don't drizzle the white chocolate on it, but very easy to make and they are not heavy or too sweet.

Reviewed on Dec. 08, 2011 by the4taals

I made 3/4 of the recipe to use 1 c butter. With a 1 tbsp scoop it made 46 cookies, 12 minutes was perfect on silpat lined sheets. I skipped the sugar and white chocolate, these cookies were perfect without, a nice delicate lemon flavour.

Reviewed on Dec. 07, 2011 by mishfish

These were delicious- a nice change from the usual Christmas cookie. One thing I did different was the drizzle. I am not a big white chocolate fan and when I have worked with it, it's not the easiest thing to melt. What I did instead was make a drizzle out of confectioners sugar, a teaspoonful of water(or so) and 1/2 tsp vanilla extract- combine until the consistency you are happy to drizzle with. Other than that- stick to the recipe because these are yummy!!

Reviewed on Aug. 08, 2011 by mcip1125

These cookies are so delicious-thin, crispy, delicious and easy.

Reviewed on Mar. 08, 2011 by gLori88

This is a very nice lemon shortbread cookie. They were a little crisp after they cooled. After a day in an air tight container they became softer. My husband really likes shortbread and he loved these.

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