Unleavened Lemon Meltaways
By
Marge Dostal, Indianapolis, Ind.
Delicious cookies and frosting sparked with lemon in these melt-in-your-mouth goodies.
Preparation time
45 minutes
Cooking time
25 minutes
Total time
1 hour, 10 minutes
Yield
20 Cookies
Ingredients
1⁄2 cup butter 1⁄4 cup confectioners' sugar 1⁄2 lemon rind (finely grated) 1 cup flour apricot jam 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar (for glaze) 2 teaspoons lemon juice (for glaze)Instructions
Beat butter with wooden spoon until creamy; add sifted confectioners’ sugar and continue beating until mixture is pale and fluffy. Stir in lemon rind and flour to make a soft dough. Spoon mixture into a pastry bag with a medium tube and pipe 20 shapes onto buttered cookie sheets. (May use a teaspoonful instead of pastry bag.) Chill for 30 minutes in refrigerator. Bake at 325 degrees for about 25 minutes.
Glaze: Combine sugar and the amount of lemon juice needed for a glaze. Leave baked cookies on cookie sheet; brush with apricot jam and then with lemon glaze. Return to oven for five minutes, then set on wire rack to cool and crisp. Makes 20 cookies.
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