Lemon Butter Cookies

Name: Lemon Butter Cookies
Prep time: 1 h 29 min
Cook time: 1 h 29 min
Total time: 1 h 29 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 12 servings Colorful Glaze; 237 milliliters butter, softened; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 12 servings Royal Icing; 1 teaspoon lemon zest; 237 milliliters powdered sugar; 0 teaspoons salt

Lemon Butter Cookies requires around 1 hour and 29 minutes from start to finish. One serving contains 368 calories, 2g of protein, and 20g of fat. This recipe serves 12. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have colorful glaze, powdered sugar, lemon zest, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 32

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Beat butter and zest at medium speed with a heavy-duty electric stand mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating well.

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Butter

Sugar

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Combine flour and salt; gradually add to butter mixture, beating until blended. Shape dough into a disc.

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Roll dough to 1/8-inch thickness on a lightly floured surface.

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Cut with a 2 1/4- or 3 1/4-inch heart-shaped cutter; place 1/2 inch apart on parchment paper-lined baking sheets. If desired, cut 1 or 2 holes at top of each cookie (to hang or thread ribbon through after baking).

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