Recipe of Quick Lemon Shortbread Cookies

Lemon Shortbread Cookies

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lemon shortbread cookies. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Lemon Shortbread Cookies is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Lemon Shortbread Cookies is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have lemon shortbread cookies using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon Shortbread Cookies:
  1. Take 125 g Butter *softened
  2. Make ready 1/4 cup Caster Sugar
  3. Get Zest of 1 Lemon
  4. Take 2 tablespoons Lemon Juice
  5. Take 1 cup Plain Flour
  6. Make ready 1/4 cup Rice Flour *OR Custard Powder
  7. Prepare Lemon Icing
  8. Get 1/4 cup Icing Sugar
  9. Make ready 1 & 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.

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