Recipe: Perfect Lemon biscuits

Lemon biscuits. Add the lemon zest and rub it into the dry mixture with your fingers. Turn the dough out onto a well-floured work surface. Mix together butter (melted), sugar and extract. Beat briefly until soft cookie dough forms. Carefully transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.

They're ready when they're turning golden brown. Remove them from the oven and leave them to cool on a wire rack. Add a few spoons of icing sugar to the lemon juice until you have a semi-runny icing. You can cook Lemon biscuits using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Lemon biscuits

1. You need of Zest of 2 lemons.
2. You need 1/2 cup of unsalted butter 113g.
3. It's 3/4 cup of granulated sugar 150g.
4. You need 2 cups of plain flour 240g.
5. You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
6. It's 2 tbsp of cornstarch.
7. It's 1 tsp of baking soda.
8. It's 1 of large egg.
9. You need 1 tbsp of lemon extract.
10. Prepare 2 tbsp of lemon juice.

Beat the butter and sugar in a bowl with an electric mixer until creamy. Beat in the egg until the mixture is light and fluffy. Add the flour, lemon zest, baking powder and salt and mix until you have a ball of dough. Lemon butter biscuits, delicious melt in the mouth biscuits fragrant with lemon.

Lemon biscuits instructions

1. Mix the lemon zest and sugar in a blender.
2. Sift flour, salt, corn starch, baking soda and whisk together.
3. Beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Mix in egg, lemon juice and lemon extract.
4. Add dry to wet mixture and beat until combined.
5. Cover and chill the dough in the fridge for at least half an hour.
6. Preheat oven to gas mark 4 and and spread 2 tbsp sized dough about 2 inches apart on greaseproof paper on a flat baking tray..
7. Bake for 10 minutes, take out of the oven and allow to cool.

A simple bake, that's ready in minutes, making them a perfect afternoon tea treat. Lemon butter biscuits are one of my favourite quick and simple bakes. Lemon biscuits are a delightful treat perfect for any time of year. They're easy to whip together, requiring only flour, sugar, butter and a few other ingredients. These light-as-air, lemony treats will melt on your tongue.