Lemon sugar cookies with cream cheese icing
These crisp, delicious sugar cookies have lots of amazing lemon flavor and a melt in your mouth consistency!
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
You will need
For the sugar cookies:
- 200 g all-purpose flour plus for kneading
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 100 g sugar
- 110 g butter cold & cut into small chunks
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla sugar
- zest and juice of 0.5 lemon
For the Frosting:
- 50 g cream cheese softened
- 80 g tablespoons of butter softened
- 5-6 tablespoons powdered sugar
- food colouring
Instructions
For the Sugar cookies:
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Preheat oven to 180C. In a small bowl stir the flour and baking powder together, set aside.
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In a large mixing bowl add the sugar and lemon zest.
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Add the butter, and use an electric mixer to cream until fluffy. Add the egg, vanilla sugar, and lemon juice and mix until creamy.
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Add the flour mixture and mix at low speed until combined. The dough will be crumbly and separated.
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Turn dough onto a floured table or other surface and knead until the dough comes together.
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Roll dough to 1 cm thickness and cut out using (heart) cookie cutters. Line baking sheet with parchment paper and place cut-out cookies 2 cm apart from each other. Freeze in the fridge for 5-10 minutes before baking.
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Bake each batch for 10-12 minutes. Allow to cool on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes and then move to a cooling rack.
For the Frosting:
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Make sure that all ingredient are at the room temperature. Cream together the cream cheese and butter with an electric mixer until smooth. Add lemon juice and the powdered sugar, one tablespoon at a time until fluffy and creamy. Let it freeze for 10-15 minutes in the fridge before decorating.
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Add food colouring and decorate the first few cookies. Add a little more food colouring and decorate a few more, gradually adding more colouring to each batch, creating a gradual darker pink.