The BEST Lemon Shortbread Cookies
These Lemon Shortbread Cookies are iced with a delicious lemon icing and are buttery, soft, and delicious! Perfect for any time of the year, this dough can be made ahead of time.
Servings: 24 cookies
Calories: 155cal
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter unsalted, softened
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tbsps fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 1/2 cups All-purpose flour white, unbleached
Icing
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 1/2 tbsps fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 tbsp water
- 1/2 tbsp fresh lemon zest to sprinkle over cookies or mix in icing.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 if ready to bake cookies.
- In a stand mixer, add cookie sugar, butter, and lemon juice.
- Mix together until combined.
- Add in the salt, and then flour.
- For ease of working, set out a large piece of parchment or wax paper. Set out 1 tablespoon of flour to make molding the dough easier.
- Meanwhile, dough should be worked into a ball and pull towards the center of the mixer.
- Scrape any dough out and with flour hands, add it to the parchment paper workspace.
- This dough is best to work with chilled for 1 hour.
- Form a log and wrap the dough up and place in the refrigerator for 1 hour. You can make this up to 24 hours in advance.
- Once dough is chilled, flour a rolling pin and work dough until about 1/4" thick.
- Stamp cookie cutters and use a spatula to carefully place them on a parchment lined baking sheet.
- This cookies do not spread so you should be able to fit 12 on a standard size baking sheet.
- Bake in preheated oven for 6 minutes.
- Once cookies are done, allow them to cool for 2 minutes before transferring them to a plate/cooling rack.
- Repeat the baking process for the next batch.
- Meanwhile, mix icing ingredients until it forms a thick consistency.
- Allow icing to thicken for about 15 mins.
- Using a teaspoon, carefully ice cookies.
- The icing should be thick and nicely coat each cookie.
- Sprinkle each with some lemon zest.
- Allow cookies to harden for at least 30 minutes. -Enjoy!
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 155cal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 20mg | Sodium: 92mg | Potassium: 16mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 10g | Vitamin A: 236IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 4mg | Iron: 1mg