I had some lemons to use and I was thinking lemon cookie. I came across an Italian Lemon Cookie Recipe that I had to completely change the recipe but I tried to shape the cookies similar to the original recipe. I think the recipe I read had typos (like 4 cups of flour for 20 cookies doesn’t make sense) and there wasn’t enough lemon in the recipe to taste lemon either (typo?). Made some other changes and came out with something really different. These cookies came out extra light, very lemony, and not too sweet. Servings are very hard to determine here. I made 40 small but very light cookies. I think you might eat up to four as a serving. So that means you will get between 40-10 servings….40 if you only eat one……(you are NOT going to do that)…….10 servings if you eat 4……I think around 15 servings is realistic…….

Ingredients for around 15 servings

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon sea salt

1/2 cup sweet butter – melted

1/4 cup sugar

1 egg – beaten

1/4 cup milk

1 lemon – juice and zest

1 teaspoon lemon extract

non stick spray

1 cup 10X sugar (for glaze)

2 lemons for zest and only one lemon for the juice (for glaze)

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and spray a cookie sheet with non stick spray.

In a large mixing bowl combine the flour, baking powder, salt, butter, sugar, egg, milk, juice and zest of one lemon, and lemon extract. Hand mix with a FORK till combined. Roll logs that are ever so slightly thinner than your pinky. Or you can be more precise and divide the dough into 4 and get 10 cuts out of each quarter……….Each 10th gets rolled into a log close to your pinky size and you want each log to be about 4 inches long. You roll it into a fancy knot.

Have fun with this……it’s not brain surgery.

They go on your sprayed cookie sheet.

Into your preheated 350 degree oven on your middle rack till slightly browned and cooked……Ovens do indeed DIFFER………In my Whirlpool oven mine took 17 and 18 minutes………Your oven may differ.

While your cookies are baking mix up the glaze in a small bowl…..It’s just a cup of 10X, zest of two lemons and juice of one lemon. Mix well with a FORK.

Dip the cookie tops into the glaze.

Use all the glaze.

For some reason my one dog feels the need to guard the cookies.

The Cookies really are FORKING DELICIOUS!