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🍰 Crunchy Butter Cookies with Lemon Glaze

189 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Take the butter out of the fridge and let it soften at room temperature.
  2. 2. Place the softened butter, 15 tablespoons of sugar, a pinch of salt, wheat flour, baking powder, and one egg into a bowl.
  3. 3. Knead the ingredients into a smooth dough.
  4. 4. Wrap the dough in cling film.
  5. 5. Place the wrapped dough in the refrigerator for at least 1.5 hours.
  6. 6. Preheat the oven to 175 °C with top and bottom heat.
  7. 7. Lightly dust a work surface with flour.
  8. 8. Take the dough out of the fridge and roll it out on the floured surface to a thickness of about 4 mm.
  9. 9. Cut out various snowflake shapes (4–5 cm in diameter) from the dough.
  10. 10. Place the cookies on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
  11. 11. Bake the cookies for about 12 minutes until the edges are golden brown.
  12. 12. Remove the cookies from the oven and let them cool on a wire rack.
  13. 13. Wash the lemon thoroughly.
  14. 14. Cut the lemon in half.
  15. 15. Squeeze the juice out of the lemon.
  16. 16. Sift 20 tablespoons of powdered sugar into a bowl.
  17. 17. Mix the powdered sugar with 2 tablespoons of lemon juice to form a thick glaze.
  18. 18. Pour the glaze into a freezer bag.
  19. 19. Seal the bag well.
  20. 20. Cut off a small corner of the bottom corner of the bag.
  21. 21. Decorate the cooled cookies decoratively with the glaze.
  22. 22. Sprinkle the cookies with sugar pearls if desired.
  23. 23. Let the glaze dry well.
  24. 24. Serve the finished cookies.

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