Lemon and Almond Cookies: an eggless recipe
 
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Serves: 12
Ingredients
  • 90g butter, softened
  • 1 cup (220g) raw sugar (I just used granulated because thats what I had)
  • 1 cups (120g) almond meal or ground almonds
  • 1 cup (150g) all purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • grated rind of 1 large lemon
  • juice of 1 large lemon
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • pure icing sugar, for dusting (this I skipped and used Sweetopia's royal icing recipe for decorating the cookies)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 325F.
  2. Line a cookie tray with parchment paper.
  3. Place butter and sugar in a large bowl and beat with an electric mixer for about 5 minutes until pale.
  4. In another bowl mix almond meal, flour, baking powder, and add it to the creamed butter and sugar, also adding in lemon juice, lemon rind and vanilla extract.
  5. Beat for a further 2 minutes until combined.
  6. Roll the dough out between 2 sheets of baking paper to about 5mm thickness, and refrigerate for 30 minutes or until firm.
If making wreaths:
  1. Using an 8.5cm (approximately) fluted cookie cutter, cut rounds from the dough as close to each other as possible, so that you get maximum cut outs from the first dough rolling itself. Place these on the prepared baking tray. Using a 3.5cm (approximately) round cookie cutter, cut a round from the centre of each cookie. (If you choose to make any other shape, which I would not recommend with this recipe,do keep the shape a simple one without any complicated design.)
  2. Gather the cut out rounds and offcuts of the dough. Roll out again to a 5mm thickness and repeat the process till all dough is used up. Keep in mind any subsequent rolling will yield tougher and more spread out cookies.
  3. Bake for 15 to 18 minutes until golden (If you make smaller cut outs baking time will change). Remove from oven and allow to completely cool on trays. Dust with icing sugar to serve.
Recipe by The Novice Housewife at https://novicehousewife.com/2013/12/25/lemon-and-almond-cookies-an-eggless-recipe/