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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 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.
Reviewed on Dec. 28, 2011 by memere7
As one reader suggested I added 1 tbl. flour. I prefer cake-like cookies to flat crispy cookies so this way I could roll the tbl. of dough into a ball before baking. Note I used 1 tbl. instead of the teas. the recipe suggests. It yielded 2 1/2 doz. cookies. I will definitly make again. found the lemon drop cookes at Publix & crushed in the food processor.
Reviewed on Dec. 25, 2011 by J-zel
Made these yesterday, for our Christmas get-together. I looked and looked for lemon drop candies but couldn`t find them so I bought 3 bags of fruit flavoured Life Savers (the ones that are larger than usual, individually wrapped) and got just the right amount of crushed candy. They are really, really good! I crushed the candy with a hammer, maybe I`ll try the blender next time...Mine also flattened somewhat, would it really prevent that to add a bit of flour? Regardless, they look nice (I added coloured red and green sugar on top) and taste wonderful (I was hard not to eat more than one!). The idea of using candy canes, or perhaps others, opens up loads of possibilities!Merry Christmas!
Made these yesterday, for our Christmas get-together. I looked and looked for lemon drop candies but couldn`t find them so I bought 3 bags of fruit flavoured Life Savers (the ones that are larger than usual, individually wrapped) and got just the right amount of crushed candy. They are really, really good! I crushed the candy with a hammer, maybe I`ll try the blender next time...
Mine also flattened somewhat, would it really prevent that to add a bit of flour? Regardless, they look nice (I added coloured red and green sugar on top) and taste wonderful (I was hard not to eat more than one!). The idea of using candy canes, or perhaps others, opens up loads of possibilities!
Merry Christmas!
Reviewed on Dec. 22, 2011 by grandmasonnalea
I finally found the lemon drops at Walgreens. They were very easy to crush in the blender. I would suggest baking one test cookie as I feel mine could have used another tablespoon or so of flour as they spread like Mexican lace cookies. The flavor is excellent and I will definitely make them again.
Reviewed on Dec. 21, 2011 by nanasdj1
These are very good. Only let them cool down before trying to remove from pan or they will stick.
Reviewed on Dec. 21, 2011 by JoanieC1965
I ran across this recipe a few years ago - and I find that the lemon reminds me of spring. So when this Christmas rolled around - I used this recipe but instead of crushing up lemon drops - I crushed up a box of 99 cent candy canes. The turned out GREAT and they were so festive with the candy cane melted inside the cookie. VERY GOOD!
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