Lemon Loves- Delicious Lemon Cookies!

I made these DELICIOUS Lemon Love cookies today!

There shortbread or sugar dip cookies with Lemon topping and Meringue if you want!

Here is a photo of one of my pretty ones!

I thought that they came out GREAT! and so did everyone else!

here are the directions

For the Cookies I used a Sugar cookie(which came out great) next time I'll try a shortbread!

Sugar Dip Cookies

2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.

In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually blend in 

the dry ingredients. Roll rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into balls with floured fingers, and place onto ungreased cookie sheets and put a thumb print in the middle of each.

Place in over for 3 minutes then pull out of oven while dough is still under done and press the back of  teaspoon into them so that there is a deep dip for filling later! its OK if the dough gets a little thin on the bottom of the dip

The bake time for these cookies is 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden. Let stand on cookie sheet two minutes before removing to cool on wire racks.

While the cookies are cooling you can finish the rest! this the the fun part the Lemon filling!

2 cups sugar
4 Tbs. cornstarch
juice from 2 lemons
1/8 tsp. salt
4 egg yolks
2 cups boiling water

Mix all ingredients together in sauce pan, on a medium heat! Till it starts to boil and thicken stirring constantly!



once it has thickened take it off the heat and let sit for 7 minutes stirring 2 times.

once the cooling and stirring is done

your going to spoon the filling into the Dip in the cookies!

using the Egg whites you saved and about 1/2 to 3/4 cup of sugar in electric mixer beat the whites and sugar together to form thick peaks.

 

Pipe on top of some of the cookies or only a few like this

and place in the over on broil for no more then 3 minutes so that the peaks and golden brown!

serve like this

If you decide not to meringue simply put your cookies in the fridge to set up for 10 mins

and the final product!