Lemon biscuits. 2 ways of baking

Lemon cookies made at home - triple enjoyment. Firstly, it is the scent of lemon baking, floating around the house. Secondly - satisfaction with their work and words of gratitude from relatives. Thirdly - taste pleasure.

One way to make a lemon cookie

Lemon biscuits can be baked from 100 grams of butter (butter is replaced if necessary with spread or margarine), 4 tablespoons of sugar, 1 egg, 1 tablespoon of high-fat sour cream, 1 tablespoon of starch, 200 grams of flour, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, From one lemon, an incomplete teaspoon of soda.

The butter is shaken, it is more convenient and faster to do this using a mixer. Add sugar (you can put less than the specified amount), sour cream, egg, starch, lemon zest. In a separate container to pour soda, add to it lemon juice (soda with lemon juice can be replaced with a baking powder for dough). Add the extinguished soda or baking powder to the total mass. Sift flour and add to the dough. The dough is well kneaded.

Heat oven to 180 ° C. Cover the baking sheet with baking paper, which it is desirable to lubricate with oil. Spoon the balls of dough into the pan, leaving small distances (when baking, the dough spreads). Lemon biscuits bake in the oven for about 15 minutes. The readiness is determined by the changed color of the dough, a light brown shade appears. Baked biscuits can be left in the oven to cool.

Homemade shortbread cookies, if desired, can be decorated with melted chocolate or sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Another way of making lemon biscuits

Components of the test: 1 egg, 100 grams of sugar, a pinch of salt, 100 grams of butter (margarine or spread), peel from one lemon, 200 grams of flour.

Ingredients of glaze: 100 grams of powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice.

Let the lemon burn with boiling water. Remove lemon peel with a grater. Squeeze the juice out of the pulp. In the flour add salt, the resulting mixture is preferably sifted. To the flour and salt, add the lemon juice and sugar, mix. Frozen oil (spread) on a large grater grate or finely chop with a knife. Stir the ingredients. Dough rolled, covered with a plastic bag, put in the refrigerator for an hour.

After the time the dough from the refrigerator is reached, rolled into a thin layer. Cut it into pieces, using molds to cut the dough for your taste (asterisks, leaves, circles, etc.). If there are no molds at hand, you can use a glass (glass).

Place the cut dough on baking paper, oiled. Place on a baking tray and put in the oven, preheated. Lemon biscuits are baked until cooked until browned.

While the biscuit is baked, cook the icing. To do this, mix the powdered sugar with lemon juice.

Ready-made shortbread cookies must be greased with glaze, which improves both appearance and taste. For lovers of dishes sent lemon biscuits can be sprinkled with sugar.

If you put another ingredient instead of lemon peel, and leave all other ingredients unchanged (this applies to both variants of the recipe), you can bake cookies with a different taste. Lemon zest can be replaced with orange (tangerine), chocolate or coconut shavings.

Fantasize and let all your experiments be so successful as to inspire you to the next!