Lemon Butter Cookies

We made this cookies right after Christmas.  I was tired of plain shortbread and especially tired of anything rich, like our Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies, which we had a ton of!

These are very similar to shortbread but with the added lemon extract it gives them a different taste!

Everything you need, super simple:

Processing the flour and butter:

Adding sugar and extract:

The girls trying to help me wrap up the dough:

Roll dough and chill:

Ready for the oven:

Lemon Butter Cookies


Ingredients:

 2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup of butter, room temperature
1 cup of powder sugar
2 teaspoons of lemon extract

 Directions:

1. In a food processer mix flour and butter until it looks like large crumbs
2. Add sugar and lemon extract to food process and continue to process until a dough forms
3. Remove dough from food processer and knead by hand a few times
4. Roll dough into a log and wrap in plastic wrap
5. Chill 1 hour in fridge
6. Remove from fridge and slice dough into 1/4 inch slices
7. Place cookies on parchment lined cookie sheet (we had to use 2 cookie sheets)
8. Bake at 400 degrees for 12 minutes