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Lemon Gooey Butter Cookies – Best Ever {from scratch!}
"Deliciousness made with all-natural flavoring—triple lemon! Melt-in-your-mouth Lemon Gooey Butter Cookies at their finest and from scratch. What could be better? Our recipe was reverse engineered from standard recipes for Gooey Butter Cookies calling for boxed yellow cake mix. The result is simply a sublime buttery, light and tender-crumbed cookie sweetened just right and full of lemon flavor including an enchanting tang from cream cheese. You just can’t have one! Included is a scrumptious and irresistible gluten free variation. Everyone loves these classic cookies inspired by the cream cheese variant of Gooey Butter Cake hailing from the 1930s in the USA Midwest—St. Louis!..."
INGREDIENTS
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2 1/4 cups (270 grams) organic all-purpose flour, such as King Arthur Flour®
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2 teaspoons (about 8 grams) baking powder
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1 (8-ounce/226-gram) package cream cheese, such as Philadelphia®, softened
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1/2 cup (1 stick/113 grams) unsalted butter, softened
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1 1/2 cups (300 grams) granulated sugar
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2 tablespoons (12 grams) freshly grated lemon zest, from 2 large lemons
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1 1/2 tablespoons (22.5 ml) freshly squeezed lemon juice
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1 teaspoon (5 ml) pure vanilla extract
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1/8 teaspoon (a few drops) lemon oil, such as Boyajian® -Omit for gluten-free variation.
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1/8 teaspoon natural yellow gel based food coloring, such as CHEFMASTER®
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1 teaspoon (5 grams) kosher salt, or 3/4 teaspoon regular table salt
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1 large egg plus 1 large egg yolk (mine weighed 71 grams w/o shells)
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1 cup (120 grams) confectioners’ sugar, sifted, for rolling & dusting cookies
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