Frosted Lemon Sour Cream Cookie Bars Food

LEMON SOUR CREAM COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 2 cookie sheets.
• Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl.
• Cream butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed. Gradually add sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Beat in sour cream, lemon zest, vanilla extract, and lemon extract. Reduce speed to low; beat in dry ingredients just until blended.
• Drop tablespoonfuls of dough on the prepared cookie sheets, spacing them 1 inch apart.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are set and edges are golden, 10 to 12 minutes. Cool for 1 minute. Use a wide metal spatula to transfer the cookies to wire racks to cool completely.

FROSTED LEMON SOUR CREAM COOKIE BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Line a 9x13 inch baking dish with aluminum foil and lightly spray with non-stick cooking spray.
• In the bowl of stand mixer, cream together butter and sugar. Beat in egg and vanilla until creamy. Stir in sour cream and lemon juice until well-combined.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, lemon zest, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg.
• Slowly beat dry ingredients into wet ingredients. Depending on the strength of your mixer, you may need to finish stirring with a wooden spoon.
• Spread dough into the bottom of prepared baking dish.
• Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until center is firm and edges just start to pull away from foil. Remove to a wire rack to cool.
• While cookie bars are cooling, prepare frosting. Cream together butter and 2 1/2 cups confectioner sugar. Add in lemon juice, lemon zest, half & half, and remaining confectioner's sugar. Beat until light and fluffy. Add more confectioner's sugar as necessary to reach desired consistency.

MAMA'S LEMON SOUR COOKIE BARS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°.
• Mix the flour and butter together until it resembles a very fine crumb.
• Sprinkle evenly into the bottom of an 11 X 7" pan, and pat lightly to smooth out any lumps.
• Bake for 10 minutes at 350°.
• Meanwhile beat the eggs, and mix in the brown sugar, nuts, coconut, vanilla and baking powder.
• Spread this mixture onto the baked crust as soon as you take it from the oven.
• Return the pan to the oven and bake for an additional 20 minutes at 350°.
• Mix the lemon rind and juice with the confectioner's sugar to make a creamy glaze.
• Spread the lemon glaze evenly over the top of the hot cookie mixture as soon as you take it from the oven.
• Cool completely before cutting into squares.
• Store in an airtight container as the lemon glaze will dry out if left out for more than a day.
• (This is not usually a problem because there are never any leftovers!)**I use the Angel Flake coconut in the can or the bag.
• Any brand of moist, flaked coconut will do, but you do not want to use the dry, shredded coconut for this recipe.