You can find in Delices and Gourmandises’ catalog a cookie box. With this treat, you can enjoy delicious and varied flavored cookies: crisp and chewy chocolate ones, some with fruit, sugar cookie, buttery biscuits … If you are passionate about cooking, here is the recipe to prepare your own butter lemon cookies at home. With this method, your cookies will taste as good as Delices and Gourmandises’. You can vary the flavor according to your tastes and preferences of the moment (you may use chocolate, ginger and cinnamon, or some peanut butter … instead of lemon).
How to prepare these cookies of Delices and Gourmandises
For 12 cookies, you will need:
- 225g self-raising flour
- 125g butter, softened
- 100g light brown soft sugar
- 125g caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- ½ tsp salt
For the flavoring:
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon freshly grated lemon zest
Method
Preheat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4
In a large bowl, sift together flour, salt, lemon juice and lemon zest.
With a blender, mix the butter and sugars on medium-high speed for about 4 minutes or until creamed. Combine in the egg and vanilla extract. Pour in the flour mixture and continue beating until well combined.
For a homemade look, roll the dough into walnut size balls. To make neater looking cookies, roll the dough into long and thick sausage then cut it into 1/4-inch slices with sharp knife.
Place the cookies onto parchment-lined baking sheets about 2 inch apart, so that they can spread.
Bake for 10 minutes or until golden around edges but soft in the middle.
Take out of the oven and let to harden for a few minutes. Transfer cookies to a wire cooling rack and let them cool completely.
The best ways to enjoy these cookies according to Delices and Gourmandises
These butter lemon cookies are great eaten warm. You can enjoy them any time: for breakfast or at snack time. They are delicious accompanied with some fruity flavored hot tea or coffee. The kids will enjoy them with hot cocoa or hot milk. You may also spread these cookies with jam or chocolate, and appreciate them with fruit juice.
If you don’t eat them straight away, you should store them at room temperature in a tight sealed container. They should be eaten within 3 days.