Lemon Italian Cookies
From zena824 16 years ago
- 13 minutes to make
- Serves 24
Very good frosted cookies.... you can decorate them for the different occasions.....This is a old recipe...out of the Capitol Cookies Cookbook
Ingredients
- 2 cups sifted flour shopping list
- 4 tablespoons sugar shopping list
- 4 heaping tablespoons shortening shopping list
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract shopping list
- 3 teaspoons baking powder shopping list
- 1/2 cup milk shopping list
- 1 egg shopping list
- Frosting: shopping list
- 2 cups confectioners sugar shopping list
- 1/3 cup shortening shopping list
- Enough heated milk to make spreading consistency. shopping list
How to make it
- Sift flour; add baking powder and sugar and sift again.
- Cut in shortening and add milk, egg, and lemon extract.
- Blend thoroughly.
- Flour hands and pinch out about 1 teaspoon dough and roll into a ball.
- Repeat process and place on greased cookie sheets, 2 1/2 inches apart.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Frosting:
- Mix sugar together with shortening and milk.
- Blend together until smooth.
- Spread on cooked cookies then decorate with nuts, coconut, colored candies etc.....
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