Delicate lemon biscuits can be not only a pleasant addition to tea, but also an amazing homemade dessert, if you choose the right recipe. Some housewives add, in addition to lemons, other fillings that make the taste of the cookies even more delicate and unusual.
It doesn't take too many ingredients and time to make tender but crunchy lemon cookies. The recipe is called Lemon Crunch. Required: juice of a whole lemon and its zest, sugar (200 g glass), two egg yolks (without proteins), a pack of butter (120-150 g), flour (two 200 g glasses). Additionally, you need a baking powder for the dough (a teaspoon) and a pinch of cumin.
Prescription caraway is used to add unusual flavor and aroma. Few people who try it immediately guess what exactly is added to the cookie.
The yolks are whipped with sugar using a mixer (otherwise they will not mix normally). The oil must first be softened. For example, in a water bath, if too frozen. Add soft butter to the grated yolks, beat thoroughly. Add chopped zest, cumin and baking powder. It turns out a thick mixture, into which sifted flour and lemon juice are then carefully introduced. The dough is kneaded very steep. Otherwise, you simply won't be able to make beautiful and tasty cookies. Divide the kneaded dough into small "sausages" (2-3 pieces).
To make the cookies bake faster, the dough must first be put into the freezer for 20-30 minutes. After that, "sausages" from the dough are cut into small circles (future cookies), which are baked in the oven at a temperature of 170-180 ° C for half an hour.
The color of the cookies turns out to be a soft beige shade, not ruddy. If overexposed, instead of tender, the biscuits will become crunchy and tough. If the oven temperature is higher, the cooking time will decrease.
There is another recipe for delicate lemon cookies, which are prepared according to the principle “from what was at hand”. For example, if there is a little cottage cheese, squeezed lemon and a little flour left. The recipe will require: half a glass of flour, half a glass of sugar, one egg, a tablespoon of sugar and half a lemon. Additionally you need: 3-5 tablespoons of cottage cheese, half a pack of butter, a pinch of baking powder for the dough and cocoa powder (if any).
With cocoa powder, the cookies have a chocolatey flavor and a very unusual dark color. Cooking time is: 15 minutes. Baking temperature: 200 ° C.
To make cookie dough, you need to mix cottage cheese, egg and sugar in a container, grind thoroughly. For example, a fork. Melt the butter in a saucepan, add to the curd-egg mixture. The zest is removed from the remnants of the lemon (washed on a grater). Flour, zest, baking powder and cocoa powder are added to the mixture. The dough is kneaded by hand. Then it is divided into small balls, which are laid out on a baking sheet and sent to the oven until tender.
This recipe is suitable "hastily". For example, when in the morning you need to drink homemade tea or the guests are already almost on the doorstep, but there is nothing to treat them with. Sometimes candied fruits, chopped nuts or even chocolate pieces are added to the cookies to taste, which, melting in the oven, create an unusual filling. According to the "haste" recipe, you can bake not only delicate cookies, but also a whole cupcake.
