Recipe – Old-Fashioned Lemon Sugar Cookies

It was my good friend’s wedding on Sunday. Being one of the sisters, I was tasked to bake some cookies for her gatecrashing. Of course it’s not going to be some yummy cookies lah. The cookies were supposed to be forfeit items for the brothers, so I had to make sour, salty, sweet and bitter cookies to “torture” them.

To do these, I decided to use a simply yet yummy lemon sugar cookies as my base before adding in all the wasabi, bitter gourd, rose syrup and lemon. I prepared quite a huge amount of dough so I had enough to make some normal cookies for my family.

I used Martha Stewart’s recipe of simple lemon sugar cookies. These large cookies have a classic lemony flavor, a chewy texture. If you want a glistening and crackly tops, you sprinkle some sanding sugar.

Old-Fashioned Lemon Sugar Cookies

Author: Maureen

These large cookies have a classic lemony flavor, a chewy texture.

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Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups caster sugar
• 1/4 cup packed light-brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest plus 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
• 1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks), softened
• 2 large eggs
• Sanding sugar optional, for sprinkling

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift flour, baking soda, and salt into a bowl; set aside.
2. Put sugars and lemon zest in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on medium speed 30 seconds. Add butter; mix until pale and fluffy, about 1 minute. Mix in eggs, 1 at a time, and then the lemon juice. Reduce speed; gradually add flour mixture, and mix until just combined.
3. Scoop dough using a ice cream scoop; space cookies 2 inches apart on parchment-lined baking sheets. Flatten cookies slightly with a spatula. Sprinkle tops with sanding sugar (optional), then lightly brush with a wet pastry brush; sprinkle with more sanding sugar.
4. Bake cookies until golden, about 15 minutes. Let cool on sheets on wire racks for 5 minutes. Transfer cookies to racks using a spatula; let cool completely.

Recipe Notes

Cookies can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature up to 3 days.

Adapted from Martha Stewart

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