Can you lot believe I'm non actually a fan of cut-out cookies? But the butter cookie dough inwards these Lemon-Glazed Butter Cookies has changed my mind! It's oh thus rich, tender, in addition to amazingly-delicious.
That's correct folks. I've publicly admitted it. I'm non a fan of cut-out cookies.
Their decorated piffling selves ever hold off thus beautifully tempting sitting on a cookie platter or inwards the cookie jar, alongside their colorful frosting in addition to sprinkles in addition to other embellishments simply calling out "eat me, swallow me! ... I'll live soooo yummy!" Oh yes, they hold off pretty in addition to all ... in addition to and thus ... you lot conduct hold that seize alongside teeth ... all excited for the yumminess that simply must be bottled upwardly within nether all that beautiful adornment ...
Just. to be. disappointed. Because the sense of savor in addition to the texture don't alive upwardly to the decoration.
That's been my sense alongside many of the cut-out cookie dough recipes out there. But allow me assure you, texture in addition to flavor's failure to alive upwardly to the beautiful ornament volition not be a occupation alongside these amazingly-delicious Lemon-Glazed Butter Cookies!
I brutal inwards absolute dear alongside this butter cookie dough when I kickoff used it to practice Raspberry Jam Sandwich Cookies a few weeks back. So I decided to practice a glazed non-sandwich cookie version alongside it. A lemon-glazed butter cookies version, to live exact.
... in addition to cuts thus nicely.
I used a bloom shape to brand my Lemon-Glazed Butter Cookies, but whatever shape would live fabulous.
I whipped upwardly a quick glaze alongside confectioners sugar, fresh lemon juice, in addition to lemon zest, spread the glaze all over the cookies, in addition to and thus sprinkled the tops alongside a acquit upon of brilliant yellowish sanding carbohydrate ... simply a acquit upon to give 'em a piffling sparkle. Aren't they pretty all sparkly?
And 1 whose texture in addition to season totally live upwardly to the beauty of their decoration. No affair what adornments you lot give them.
Lemon-Glazed Butter Cookies
Source: Cookie dough adapted from Cook's Illustrated Baking Book: Baking Demystified
Ingredients For the cookies:
- 2 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
- 3/4 c. granulated sugar
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 16 T. (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened & cutting into sixteen pieces
- 2 T. cream cheese, softened to room temperature
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 c. confectioners sugar
- 5 to six tsp. fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp. lemon zest
- small pinch salt
- bright yellowish colored carbohydrate for sprinkling {optional}
- PREPARE COOKIE DOUGH: Place flour, sugar, in addition to tabular array salt inwards the bowl of a stand upwardly mixer (or large mixing bowl); mix on depression speed most 10 seconds until good combined.
- With the mixer running at depression speed, add together 1 slice of butter at a fourth dimension dropping them inwards most iii seconds apart. Once all the butter is added, move along mixing most 1 to 2 minutes to a greater extent than until the mixture resembles moist crumbs. Beat inwards cream cheese in addition to vanilla for most xxx seconds until dough starts to shape large clumps.
- Use your hands to knead dough until it comes together into a large ball, most iii or iv turns.
- Divide dough into ii equal pieces, press each slice into a circular slightly flattened disc, roll each inwards plastic wrap, in addition to chill inwards the fridge for xxx minutes until theatre but yet pliable.
- CUT & BAKE COOKIES: Working alongside 1 dough slice {keep the other 1 inwards the refrigerator}, curl to 1/8-inch thick betwixt 2 pieces of parchment newspaper or on a lightly floured move surface. Peel away transcend canvass of parchment {if using}.
- Use a 2-inch fluted circular or flower/wreath cookie cutter {or other shape, if desired} to cutting cookies from the rolled dough. Place on a baking canvass in addition to bake at 375 degrees until lite golden brown, most 8 - 10 minutes. Allow to cool on baking canvass for 2 - iii minutes in addition to and thus transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
- PREPARE GLAZE: Whisk together confectioners sugar, five teaspoons of lemon juice, salt, in addition to lemon zest alongside a fork until smooth. Whisk inwards additional teaspoon of lemon juice if needed to brand glaze easily spreadable. Spread on cooled cookies in addition to sprinkle alongside yellowish colored sugar, every bit desired. Let glaze laid upwardly for at to the lowest degree xxx minutes earlier serving.
{NOTE: For fifty-fifty to a greater extent than lemon punch, add together upwardly to 1 teaspoon of finely chopped lemon zest to the butter cookie dough, added it when you lot shell inwards the cream cheese.}
Enjoy!
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