Iced Meyer Lemon Cookies Food

ICED MEYER LEMON COOKIES

Steps:

• Combine 1 and 3/4 cups of the flour, cornstarch, salt, baking powder, and baking soda in a medium bowl. Stir with a whisk.
• In a large bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar on medium-high speed for 3 minutes, until pale and fluffy. Add the lemon juice, zest, and eff yolk. Beat until well combined.
• Reduce the speed to low and add the flour in 3 additions. Beat until just combined, scrape the sides of the bowl as needed. The dough should easily hold together and not be sticky to the touch. If the dough is sticky, gradually beat in the remaining flour.
• Divide the dough in half and roll each roll one portion at a time in between 2 sheets of parchment paper to 1/4-inch thickness. Leave the dough in the parchment paper and stack it on a cookie sheet. Freeze the dough for at least 20 minutes to make it easier to handle while cutting.
• Preheat the oven to 325ºF.
• Use a 2-inch round (or any shape you like) cookie cutter and cut as many rounds as you can. Reroll the scraps up to 2 times to a similar thickness, freeze, and cut out remaining rounds. Place the cookies 1 inch apart on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or silicone mat. Bake one sheet at a time for 12 to 14 minutes, until the edges are lightly brown. let the cookies rest on the pan for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. Repeat until all the cookies are done.
• Whisk the sugar and lemon juice together in a bowl, adding 1 tablespoon of juice at a time, until the icing is spreadable. Stir in the zest. Spread the icing over the cookies. Let the iced cookies set fully before serving.

MEYER ICED LEMON COOKIES

Steps:

• Using a microplane grater, remove the zest from 4 Meyer lemons. Reserve 1 1/2 tablespoons for the dough.
• Mix butter on high speed until fluffy and add sugar and egg. Continue mixing on medium speed and add vanilla and lemon rind. In a separate bowl, mix together dry ingredients until blended. Mixing on low speed, slowly add the flour mixture to the creamed butter mixture until blended, scraping the sides of the bowl occasionally. Cover dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
• While the dough is being chilled, juice the lemons you removed the zest from earlier. Add the remaining lemon rind to the juice and slowly mix in the powdered sugar. It's better to err on the side of too thick for the icing as runny icing won't form nice stripes.
• Remove the dough from the refrigerator and roll into 1 1/4 inch balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten the cookies with a glass or measuring cup. Coat the bottom of the glass or cup with sugar between flattening. Try to get the cookies around 1/4 inch in height.
• Bake 9- 11 (If you want a crisper cookie you may need 11+ minutes. Other wise 9-10 should give you a softer cookie.) minutes at 375 degrees until edges are just turning golden. Remove from oven and tranfer to cooling racks to cool completely.
• Set a plastic bag in a glass and pour the icing mixture into the plastic bag. Snip the corner off the plastic bag and pipe stripes along the cooled cookie tops. Let the icing harden fully before transferring to storage container.

ICED LEMON COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a food processor work bowl, add sugar and lemon zest. Process until sugar and zest are well mixed, about 20 seconds. Scrape into a large mixing bowl. Reserve about 1/2 cup of lemon sugar in a separate bowl for later use.
• Add flour, baking powder and salt into food processor and pulse briefly to mix. Add cold butter into food processor with flour mixture and process with short pulses until mixture resembles cornmeal and no large lumps of butter remain, about 10 pulses. Pour this mixture into the sugar and lemon mixture in the large mixing bowl and set aside.
• In a medium bowl, mix egg yolks, vanilla extract and lemon juice together.
• Using an electric mixer with a paddle attachment, pour in the lemon/sugar and flour/butter mixture and stir until combined, about 15 seconds. Then, while the mixer is still running, slowly add egg/lemon juice mixture and mix until well combined and dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl, about 15 to 30 seconds.
• Scrape the dough into a large bowl and refrigerate until cold, but not solid, about 30 minutes. Use an ice cream scoop to scoop the dough onto parchment-lined cookie sheets. Take the dough balls and roll the tops into the reserved lemon sugar. Use the bottom of a water glass to press the cookies flat, about 1/4-inch thick. Bake the cookies until slightly browned, about 15 minutes. Remove the parchment paper with the cookies from the tray to a cooling rack and cool completely, about 1 hour. Once the cookies have completely cooled, ice with Lemon Icing.
• 1 pound (2 cups) confectioners' sugar
• 6 tablespoons lemon juice
• In a medium bowl, whisk sugar and lemon juice together until smooth. Spoon onto cooled cookies, and spread evenly with the back of a spoon. Let stand on a cooling rack until the glaze is set, about 1 hour.
• Yield: enough for 3 dozen cookies

ICED HONEY LEMON COOKIES

Steps:

• In a small mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar together; beat in egg.
• In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt.
• In another separate bowl, combine honey, yogurt, lemon peel and lemon extract.
• Alternate between adding the dry ingredients and the honey mixture to the creamed mixture; mix until well blended.
• Drop by tablespoonfuls, 2-inches apart onto greased baking sheets.
• Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes or until a light golden color; remove to wire racks.
• For the icing, in a small bowl combine the confectioners' sugar and lemon juice until smooth.
• Brush over the warm cookies and sprinkle with the grated lemon peel.

ZESTY ICED LEMON COOKIES

Steps:

• In large bowl, combine butter, 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup powdered sugar; beat well. Add egg, oil and lemon peel; mix well.
• Lightly spoon flour into measuring cup; level off. Add flour, baking soda, cream of tartar and salt to sugar mixture; beat until well blended. Cover dough with plastic wrap; refrigerate 2 hours for easier handling.
• Heat oven to 325. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Flatten cookies into 2-inch rounds with bottom of glass dipped in sugar.
• Bake at 325 for 9 to 11 minutes or until edges begin to set and cookies are light golden brown. Cool 2 minutes. Remove from cookie sheets; place on wire racks. Cool 10 minutes or until completely cooled.
• Meanwhile, in small bowl, blend 2 cups powdered sugar and enough lemon juice for desired spreading consistency. Spread frosting on cooled cookies. Sprinkle pistachios on frosting before it sets.