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After we'd visited at her house, my sister sent a "care" package for the trip home. Tucked inside were these delightful cookies. Crushed lemon drop candies and grated lemon peel lend to the refreshing taste. —Pat Zimmerman, Midland, Texas
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Nutritional Facts 2 cookies equals 120 calories, 5 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 22 mg cholesterol, 97 mg sodium, 18 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 1 g protein.
Originally published as Lemon Drop Cookies in Best of Country Cookies , p37
Sweet White Wine
Enjoy this recipe with a sweet white wine such as Moscato or a sweet Riesling.
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Reviewed on May. 03, 2013 by saralyn_06
I had problems with the lemon drops melting thru cookie, therefor causing cookie to fall apart
Reviewed on Mar. 13, 2013 by oneFitzy
This was easy and tastes wonderful!
Reviewed on Mar. 12, 2013 by antadaall
Very yummy! I added a little yellow food coloring for appearance and a teaspoon of lemon extract to enhance the flavor. The whole family chowed them, so I am off to the kitchen to make a second batch. My son, who is not into sweets, wants the recipe.
Reviewed on Dec. 22, 2012 by last12Ecrew
I HIGHLY advise either using parchment paper, nonstick sheets, or nonstick spray. I was able to smash the candies up pretty well, but they melted to all 3 of my cookie sheets. This made it nearly impossible to scrape the cookies off without mangling them. I am also upset by the fact that I have 3 AirBake cookie sheets with melted candy stuck to them and trying to figure out how to get it off without damaging my cookie sheets. The cookies are beyond delicious, but next time I'll make lemon bars.
Reviewed on Dec. 16, 2012 by kramerstacey15
These cookies are so yummy!. The tang of the lemon drop pieces is great. I put the candies in a Ziploc bag and crushed them with my meat mallot. It was quick and easy. I used parchment paper on my cookie sheets. I had no problem with my cookies sticking or crumbling. I didn't have lemon peel, so I used 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract.
Reviewed on Apr. 02, 2012 by DebHorton
The flavor of the cookies is good, but they are almost impossible to get off the cookie sheet. Half of the candies I chopped up in the food processor, which was very noisy but worked pretty well. The other half I used a hammer. I thought the pieces were small enough, but unless you can chop the candies as fine as sugar, they'll melt and stick to the pan. Less than half turned out pretty enough to take to the bake sale.
Reviewed on Mar. 25, 2012 by Kichler073
Very good and wonderful lemon flavor.
Reviewed on Feb. 23, 2012 by bigandbold
very easy and very tasty and flavorable.
Reviewed on Jan. 08, 2012 by sonata
I made these cookies yesterday and followed the directions. However, even after spraying the cookie sheets and letting them cool they fell apart when I removed them. They taste wonderful but they are now very limp and sticking together. I have no idea what I did wrong.
Reviewed on Dec. 31, 2011 by MommyHen
I made these today for New Years, very good cookies. I had trouble finding lemon drops too but eventually found them in the Brachs Candy Display at Walmart. I used my cheap rolling pin to crush the drops instead of the vintage rolling pins I use regularly and was glad I did because these drops were very hard to crush and marked up the rolling pin. If someone has a better way to crush these please let me know. I love anything lemon so next time I might double the lemon peel and lemon drops.
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