Kitchen appliances and utensils:
- oven;
- a baking sheet;
- mixer;
- fine grater;
- kitchen knife;
- sieve for flour;
- confectionery spatula;
- baking paper;
- cling film.
Ingredients
| Name | amount |
| Premium wheat flour | 340 g |
| Butter, room temperature | 100 g |
| Granulated sugar | 100 g |
| Powdered sugar | 100 g |
| Eggs | 2 pcs. |
| Lemon Medium | 1 PC. |
| Baking powder for the dough | 8 g |
| Common salt | 2 g |
Step cooking
- Cut into small cubes the oil at room temperature (100 g), transfer to a deep bowl.
- Wash the lemon (1 pc.), Dry. Remove the zest from it with a fine grater. Squeeze juice from the fruit, take 40 ml.
- Add granulated sugar (100 g) to the oil.
- Mix the butter and sugar with a mixer. Stir first at low, then at medium speed.
- Add one egg each (2 pcs.) To the bowl. Beat the mass a little with one egg first, then add the second.
- Continuing the whipping, put the lemon zest (from one lemon) and salt (2 g) into the mass.
- Beat until smooth, the sugar should disperse.
- Add lemon juice (40 ml) to the bowl, mix with a mixer.
- Pour sifted wheat flour (340 g) into a bowl, baking powder for dough (8 g).
- Knead the dough with a pastry spatula and hands.
- Cover the bowl with the finished dough with cling film (so that the surface of the dough does not dry) and put in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 180 ° C, while the cabinet is warming up, form cookies. Cover the baking sheet with baking paper. Remove the dough from the refrigerator. Take a tablespoon of dough, roll balls the size of a large walnut. Thickly roll the dough balls in icing sugar (100 g).
- Spread on a baking sheet covered with baking paper about 3-4 cm apart.
- Bake cookies in a preheated oven (180 ° C) for 15-18 minutes.
- Remove the finished cookies from the oven, let cool.
- Ready-made lemon cookies have a beautiful crust in the cracks and delicate aromatic flesh. Serve pastries with milk, cocoa, tea or coffee, eat just like that.
Decoration options
- If desired, other ingredients can be added to the dough: chocolate chips, candied fruits, raisins, dried apricots, chopped nuts, dried cranberries and other components.
- Cookies do not have to be shaped into balls, here a variety of options are allowed: you can use special beautiful cookie cutters, cut cookies from a roller, cut them out with a rolled layer using a round or triangular mold.
- To break in (or sprinkle) cookies, you can use crushed chocolate, chopped nuts, candy crumb, pastry topping, colored sugar, glaze, coconut, sesame seeds, poppy seeds and other ingredients.
Video recipe
In the video you will see the whole process of making fragrant lemon pastries with detailed explanations.
Having familiarized yourself with the step-by-step description and video instructions, you can easily bake delicious flavored cookies for a family tea party or a festive table. Attract the children to the final stage of cooking; they will like cookies wrapped in icing sugar or colored sugar. We will be grateful if in the comments below you leave your tips and recipes for the original lemon cookies from your personal cookbook.
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