Lemon High Tea Cookies
From krumkake 11 years ago
- 90 minutes to make
- Serves 6 dozen
These light, tart, lemony cookies will hit your "extreme lemon" button if you're into lemon. The frosting is a creamy glaze that really pumps up the lemon flavor - I just made them for the first time and I can't stop popping them into my mouth!
Ingredients
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- 2 cups butter, room temperature* MUST USE ROOM TEMP, NOT MELTED!! shopping list
- 1 cup powdered sugar shopping list
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest shopping list
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract shopping list
- 1 very heaping tablespoon of whole milk ricotta shopping list
- 2 cups all-purpose flour shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups cornstarch (yes, that's 1 and 1/2 cups!) shopping list
- lemon frosting shopping list
- 1/3 cup butter, melted shopping list
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest shopping list
- 1/2 cup freshly-squeezed lemon juice shopping list
- 4 cups powdered (confectioners) sugar shopping list
- Additional lemon juice to thin to "dipping" consistency, if needed - using water to thin the frosting will water down the flavor - I prefer lemon juice shopping list
How to make it
- For the cookies, preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl, beat butter until creamy looking. Add powdered sugar; mix until light and fluffy. Add lemon zest, vanilla extract and ricotta; beat well. Add flour and cornstarch into butter mixture and mix well until well combined. NOTE: At first the dough will look dry - but don't worry, as the dough slowly comes together as you mix it and the butter melts into the dry ingredients.
- NOTE: Do not refrigerate this dough, as the butter will harden and make the dough unmanageable for rolling to a ball.
- Using your hands, roll cookie dough into 1-inch balls. Place onto ungreased cookie sheets and bake 15 minutes or until bottoms are light brown. Remove from oven; let cookies cool on baking sheet before removing them to a wire cooling racks (when warm the cookies are very delicate).
- When cookies have cooled, dip the top of cookies into the frosting and set on waxed paper to allow the frosting to set up.
- For the frosting, combine butter, lemon zest, lemon juice, and powdered sugar; stir until well mixed. NOTE: Additional lemon juice may be needed to get the frosting thin enough.
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