lemon cookies

How To Make lemon cookies

• 1

  Combine dry ingredients (flour through salt) in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, mix with an electric mixer, butter, sugar, vanilla and lemon zest. Add the egg and continue mixing until combined.
• 2

  Add dry ingredients to the butter mixture and mix until just combined.
• 3

  Place the dough in a sheet of plastic wrap and form into a disc. Freeze cookie dough for 30-45 minutes or until dough is hard.
• 4

  Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Once the dough is hard, break off 1/2 of the dough, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate. Roll the first portion of the dough until thin (the dough is very buttery -- dust with enough flour to handle)
• 5

  Dip cookie cutter in flour and cut out cookies and place them on the parchment lined cookie sheets. Decorate them generously with sprinkles. Repeat with remaining dough.
• 6

  Bake 6-7 minutes or until cookies are golden. Let cookies cool completely on a wire rack.
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