Lemon Biscuits Recipes

LEMON BUTTER BISCUITS

Steps:

• These biscuits are dead easy to make and perfect for a simple gift. If you fancy jazzing them up for Christmas, try using an orange in place of the lemons and add a pinch of cinnamon to your demerara - lovely and festive!
• 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. Cover and place in the fridge for 2 hours, or until firm. Preheat your oven to 180°C/350°F/gas 4. Roll out the dough on a floured surface until ½cm thick. Cut out shapes and place on a greaseproofed tray. Sprinkle with demerara sugar and bake for 10 to 12 minutes until the edges are light brown. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

LEMON BISCUITS

Steps:

• In a medium mixing bowl stir together flour, sugar, baking powder,
• lemon peel, baking soda, and salt. Using a pastry blender, cut in
• shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Make a well in the
• center of dry mixture. In a small mixing bowl combine the buttermilk
• and mayonnaise or Miracle Whip , add to dry mixture all at once.
• Using a fork, stir just until moistened.
• Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Quickly knead
• dough by folding and pressing gently for 10 to 12 strokes or until the
• dough is nearly smooth. Pat or lightly roll dough to 1/2-inch thickness.
• Cut dough with a floured 2-1/2-inch biscuit cutter, dipping the cutter
• into flour between cuts.
• Place biscuits 1 inch apart on an unerased baking sheet. Bake in a
• 450 degree F. oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden. Remove the
• biscuits from the baking sheet and cool slightly. If desired, drizzle
• Lemon Glaze over the biscuits just before serving. Serve warm. Makes
• 10 to 12 biscuits.
• Lemon Glaze: In a mixing bowl stir together 1 cup sifted powdered
• sugar, 1 tablespoon milk, 1/2 teaspoon finely shredded lemon peel,
• and 1/4 teaspoon vanilla. Stir in additional milk, 1 teaspoon at a time,
• until glaze is smooth and of drizzling consistency.

LEMON AND SUGAR MINI BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• In a large bowl, combine the flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda and whisk well to combine. Next, add the butter and lemon zest and combine the mixture with a fork until coarse crumbles are created. Add the buttermilk and mix until just combined. Make a disk with the dough and cover in plastic wrap. Chill for 15 minutes.
• Dust a cutting board with flour. Roll out the dough to about 3/4-inch thickness. Cut the biscuits with a 1 1/2-inch floured cookie cutter, juice glass or something similar. Reroll the remaining dough and continue making biscuits.
• Place the biscuits on the prepared baking sheet. Brush the tops with the beaten egg and sprinkle with the raw sugar. Bake until golden brown, about 15 minutes.

LEMON BISCUITS

Steps:

• preheat oven to 180/gas 4
• mix flour, bicarbonate soda caster sugar,brownsugar+ salt in the food processor till combined
• Add melted butter,zest+lemon juice and pulse till soft dough, then place in fridge to chill for 30minutes before rolling into 30 balls
• Place biscuits on greased trays,flatten slightly+bake for 10-12 minutes till golden

BLUEBERRY-LEMON BREAKFAST BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
• Remove biscuits from the can and split in half crosswise, for a total of 10 biscuits. Place 5 biscuits on the prepared cookie sheet; divide blueberries over the tops. Cover blueberries with the remaining biscuits.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, 18 to 22 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes.
• Combine powdered sugar, lemon juice, and zest in a small bowl. Brush biscuits tops with 1/2 of the glaze. Let sit until glaze has set, about 5 minutes. Repeat with remaining glaze.

LEMON BISCUITS

Steps:

• Stir together the butter, sugar, egg yolk, vanilla and zest from 1 lemon using a wooden spoon. Stir in the flour - you might need to get your hands in at the end. Tip onto a floured surface, bring together into a smooth dough, then roll out, half at a time, and stamp out 5-6cm rounds. Keep re-rolling trimmings, you should get about 40 biscuits. Arrange on trays lined with baking parchment, cover with cling film and chill for 30 mins.
• Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Bake the biscuits for 8-12 mins until pale golden, then cool. Once cool, spread half the biscuits with a little lemon curd and top with a second biscuit. Arrange the biscuits on wire racks over trays. Mix enough lemon juice into the icing sugar to give a runny consistency, then drizzle over the biscuits. Scatter over a bit more lemon zest and leave to set.