Recipe of Quick Lemon Shortbread Cookies

Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, lemon shortbread cookies. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lemon Shortbread Cookies is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Lemon Shortbread Cookies is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook lemon shortbread cookies using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon Shortbread Cookies:

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

Steps 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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