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Lemon Shortbread Cookies
Lemon Shortbread Cookies

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The ingredients needed to make Lemon Shortbread Cookies:
  1. Use Butter *softened
  2. Provide Caster Sugar
  3. Prepare Zest of 1 Lemon
  4. Prepare Lemon Juice
  5. Prepare Plain Flour
  6. Use Rice Flour *OR Custard Powder
  7. Use Lemon Icing
  8. Provide Icing Sugar
  9. Use & 1/2 teaspoons Lemon Juice
Instructions to make Lemon Shortbread Cookies:
  1. Preheat oven to 160C. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
  2. Mix softened Butter and Sugar until smooth and well combined. Add Lemon Zest, Lemon Juice, Plain Flour and Rice Flour and mix well. Use your hands to bring the dough together in the bowl.
  3. Roll out the dough on a floured surface until 8mm thick and cut out shapes, OR slice well-refrigerated stiff dough. *Note: Today I used a round cutter 4.5cm in diameter and made 24 cookies.
  4. *Note: If the dough is too soft to work with, allow it to cool in the fridge until firm enough.
  5. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until lightly golden. Set aside on the tray for 10 minutes to cool before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
  6. These cookies taste lovely without Lemon Icing. To make Lemon Icing, mix Icing Sugar and Lemon Juice until smooth. Place it in a piping bag or tough plastic bag, and pipe it out on the cooled cookies.

These Lemon Shortbread Cookies will be the star of your cookie tray! Lightly lemon flavored buttery cookies dipped in white chocolate and sprinkled with yellow sugar couldn't be prettier. These cookies have an irresistible combination of lemon and almond flavors. If you love traditional shortbread cookies, you are going to love these almond flour cookies with lemon! My favorite cookie to eat with tea.

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