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Lemon-Nutmeg Shortbreads with Lemon Icing

Lemon-Nutmeg Shortbreads with Lemon Icing
Lemon-Nutmeg Shortbreads with Lemon Icing might be a good recipe to expand your dessert recipe box. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 92 calories, 1g of protein, and 5g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 18. If you have butter, salt, lemon icing, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes.

Instructions

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Preheat oven to 350°F.
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Combine flour, cornstarch, nutmeg and salt in medium bowl; whisk to blend. Using electric mixer, beat butter, sugar, lemon peel and vanilla in large bowl until light and fluffy.
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Add dry ingredients and mix until dough begins to come together.
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Turn dough out onto sheet of waxed paper. Gather dough into ball; flatten into disk. Cover with second sheet of paper.
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Roll out dough to 1/4-inch thickness, turning and freeing paper from dough occasionally. Free bottom sheet of paper; remove top sheet.
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Cut out cookies, using 3-inch cutters.
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Transfer to 2 ungreased baking sheets, spacing cookies 1/2 inch apart. Gather and reroll scraps; cut out additional cookies.
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Transfer to sheet.
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Bake cookies until firm to touch and just beginning to color, about 15 minutes.
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Transfer cookies to rack and cool.
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Drizzle icing from fork tines onto cookies. (Can be made 1 week ahead. Store airtight in single layer at room temperature.)
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DifficultyHard
Ready In45 m.
Servings18
Health Score0
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