Lemon-Glazed Cookies

These delicious, buttery, and tender Lemon Glazed Cookies are refreshing and easy to make.

About This Recipe

• These Lemon Glazed Cookies have a flakey, tender, and pie-like texture.
• This recipe is easy to prepare and uses a handful of ingredients. We need flour, Butter, Granulated sugar, vanilla extract, Lemon zest, and juice.
• The beauty of this recipe is that it can be adapted to so many different flavors. Here we use lemon zest, juice in the cookie dough, and a brushed lemony glaze. However, you can flavor these cookies with orange, espresso, or cocoa powder.
• These Lemon Glazed Cookies have a flaky texture similar to a pie crust, giving these cookies a unique bite experience.
• I am writing this post only a few days before Easter 2023, and I cut them in egg shapes, but feel free to cut them in any shape that suits the season.

How To Make These Lemon-Glazed Cookies

• Use your clean fingertips to rub the lemon zest and sugar until the oil and aroma are released from the lemon zest. Set this aside.
• Unlike most cookie recipes, this one uses cold butter, like the pie crust recipe. Cut the cold butter into thin slices.
• Beat the butter, vanilla extract, and sugar-lemon zest mixture using the paddle attachment. Keep the mixture at a low speed. We do not blend the butter fully.
• Remove the mixture from the mixer, and add the flour and salt. Use your fingertips to incorporate the flour into the butter mixture for a couple of minutes until the mixture forms large crumbs. Gather the dough into a large ball.
• Lightly flour a working surface and roll the dough to ½ inch thickness. Use an egg shape cookie cutter to cut the cookies.
• Place the cookies on the lined baking sheets, and bake them for 20 to 25 minutes or until the edges turn light brown.

Prepare The Glaze

• Add enough lemon juice to the powdered sugar until the glaze has the consistency of warm honey. Brush the cookies with the glaze while they are still warm.
• Let the glaze set for a half hour.

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