Showing posts with label lemon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lemon. Show all posts

Friday, August 14, 2015

Iced Lemon Cookies


One of my sons took a cooking class while in Jr. High.  Now he has a binder full of delicious recipes that I need to try out.  We really liked these cookies!!  They are simple with only a few ingredients.  I adapted the icing recipe a little for my taste....if you prefer, you can add less lemon extract and less milk to make a thicker icing.  I attempted to drizzle my icing on the cookies....and my attempt was not that great! :) ...but I was in a hurry and I'm not even close to a perfectionist, so it was good enough for me!

Iced Lemon Cookies
Ingredients:
1 (18.25 ounce) package lemon cake mix
2 eggs
1/3 cup vegetable oil....or canola, I usually have canola
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
2 Tablespoons milk

Directions:  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Mix together cake mix, eggs and oil.  Drop by rounded teaspoons onto an ungreased baking sheet.  Bake for no more than 8 minutes.  Do not over bake!

To make lemon icing:  Mix together powdered sugar, lemon extract and milk.  You can always add less or more milk or powdered sugar to get it to your desired consistency. 

Now....ice your cookies.  You can spread it on thick or 'drizzle' like I did.  BUT I'm sure you can do a much better job of drizzling :)


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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Lemon Brownies

I LOVE lemons and all things lemon.....

My sister made these for us while we were in Utah.  They are SO yummy!!  Her and her kids came to visit us last week and I told her that we needed to make them again....so she did.  She found the recipe here at Rita's Recipes.



Lemon Brownies

Ingredients:

3/4 cup flour
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter, soft
2 eggs
juice from 1/2 lemon (~1T)
zest from 1/2 lemon (~1t)

Directions:  Preheat oven to 350.  Combine the flour, sugar and salt in a large bowl.  Mix in the softened butter.  In another bowl whisk the eggs with the lemon juice and zest.  Add to the larger bowl and mix well.    Pour into prepared 8X8 brownie pan.  Bake at 350 for 25 minutes.  You can double the recipe and bake in a 9X13 pan for 30 minutes.  Remove and let cool, then glaze.

Glaze
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 Tablespoon lemon juice
additional lemon zest

stir together.
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