Lemon Lavender Butter Cookies
These Lemon Lavender Butter Cookies could make a great gift for family and friends! Bake them in the winter, and they will bring summer closer to you. The cookies are also perfect on a Sunday afternoon, munching on them in the garden next to a delicious tea, but how perfect they could be for a bridal or baby shower?
Servings: 24 cookies
Calories: 86kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- ⅔ cup unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1 large egg
- Zest from 1 lemon
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon edible dried lavender
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Beat the butter with the sugar until smooth and fluffy.
- Add the egg and lemon zest and keep mixing.
- Incorporate flour, baking powder, salt, and lavender.
- Shape the dough into a ball with your hands, wrap it in plastic foil and refrigerate it for 30 mins.
- Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 350F.
- Remove the dough from the refrigerator. Using a rolling pin, roll dough to a ½ inch thickness. Cut cookies in any shape you want with a cookie cutter.
- Re-roll the scraps and continue cutting the dough into cookies until you finish the batch.
- Place the cookies on a baking tray and bake them at 350F for 12-14 minutes or until they are golden brown around the edges. They should remain white on top.
- Remove from the oven, allow them to cool on the tray for 5 minutes, then place them on a cooling rack. They keep fresh for few days in an air-tight container.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 86kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 20mg | Sodium: 41mg | Potassium: 15mg | Fiber: 0.3g | Sugar: 0.04g | Vitamin A: 168IU | Calcium: 16mg | Iron: 1mg
