Lemon Cookies or Don't turn your back on me cookies.

You know- you try.

Yesterday was baking cookies for the kiln opening this week-end and I thought I would make some Lemon cookies. I have made these before.
Simple recipe- in fact I will pass it on to you.
Just because I love company in my misery

Basic Cookie Mix for Lemon Cookies:
4 cups sifted flour- I use cake flour
4 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups dry milk powder
1 1/2 TBS baking powder
1 1/2 tsp. salt

Place all your ingredients in a large bowl and mix very well.

Store in a tightly covered container and this will keep up to one month.

To make the cookies:
2 Cups of the base

 1/2 cup melted butter

1 egg beaten

1tsp lemon extract

1TBS lemon juice

1Tbs grated lemon rind, yellow only

Mix this all together and shape into a log by wrapping in wax paper and chill.

Cut into small pieces- I weigh them out on my kitchen scale- just like making balls of clay.
Roll into 1" balls and place them 2 inches apart.
I bake on parchment paper.
350 for 10 minutes- or 12 it says but this is where the trouble came in.
I burned the first round.
Hit the second round and those are beauties.
Then turned my back on the last round- burned.
Little buggers.......

These are in the notes I made:
Batter does best chilled
Don't put too many on a pan
Try not to burn.
Hummm- TRY NOT TO BURN!!!!!! would be better.
Or note make these on days you have nothing else going on and can give complete attention to baking these cookies because if you do not they will come out like sweet, very sweet, hockey pucks , but note that dentist all over the world are cheering you on since you could break teeth on them.

With all this said we will still have some wonderful cookies at the opening.
So come on down and have a few.