This idea came to me one night while perusing the web: I saw a great sugar cookie recipe on marthastewart.com and wanted to do something a little different. The hubby loves anything lemon, and that is pretty much the only type of sweet that he likes. So in hopes that I wouldn't have to eat these all on my own, I wanted to make some type of lemon icing to pour on top of them.
Steps to making these delicious beauties:
Sugar Cookies
3 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 3/4 cups granulated sugar
1/4 cup packed light-brown sugar
1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest, plus 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 cup unsalted butter, (2 sticks), softened
2 large eggs
When you have your dough, roll it out into long individual pieces, and then connect the two ends making shapes similar to rings (or donuts!)
Set oven to 350 degrees, and cook until lightly browned, about 15 minutes.
While the cookies bake, begin your lemon icing.
Lemon Icing
1/2 cup butter
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups confectioners' sugar
(Just mix the ingredients together! It is super easy)
When your cookies are slightly browned, take them out of the oven and let them cool for about 5 minutes.
While they are still slightly warm, use a spoon and pour a small amount of icing over the cookie, enough to cover the entire top.
(This is a messy process so make sure you do this on top of foil)
When done glazing your cookies, let them cool, and enjoy!!!
1 comments:
O dear lord....I need one of those!!!!!! I think you should bake those and send them to the store....we are doing 40 boxes of clothes for store set by Friday...These would put happy faces on us....:)
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