Serves: 24
Dry Ingredients
- All Purpose Flour – 1 cup
- Granulated sugar – 1/3 cup
- Baking powder – ¼ tsp
- Salt – ½ tsp
Wet Ingredients
- cold butter – ½ cup
- whole milk – 2 tblsp
- vanilla extract – 1 tsp
- lemon juice – 2 tblsp
- lemon zest – 2 tblsp
Procedure
- In a mixing bowl add granulated sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest; mix together and keep aside.
- In a food processor, add all the dry ingredients along with cold butter; pulse it once and achieve the crumbled texture (for folks who do not have a food processor, using a mixie/blender or even using hand mixing can yield similar best result)
- Now add the sugar and lemon mixture along with 3 tblsp of room temperature whole milk and vanilla essence. Pulse mix in the food processor until all the ingredients are combined together.
- Place this mixed dough over the working counter top and knead for about 2 mins
- Shape the dough into 6-8 inch long cylinder blocks and wrap the dough in plastic wrap; refrigerate for at least half an hour.
- Pre heat your oven at 350 degree F.
- Remove the plastic wrap from the dough and cut it for about ¼ inch thick slices and place them over the parchment lined sheet pan
- Bake it for about 10 mins. Cool completely and store it in air tight container.
- Enjoy the lemon flavored shortbread cookies with your family and friends.
