Melt In Your Mouth Lemon Snowdrops Recipes

LEMON SNOWDROPS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degree C).
• Cream 1 cup butter or margarine and 1/2 cup sifted confectioners' sugar. Add 2 cups flour, lemon extract, and 1/4 teaspoon salt; mix well.
• Place about 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool. Put together with filling. Roll in confectioners' sugar.
• To Make Filling: Mix 1/2 cup sugar, 2 Tablespoons cornstarch, and dash of salt. Add 1/2 cup water, 2 Tablespoons butter or margarine, 2 teaspoons grated lemon rind, 3 Tablespoons lemon juice, and 3 drops of yellow food coloring. Bring to rolling boil, stirring constantly; boil and stir 1 minutes. Cool. Frost flat side of one cookie and put together with another cookie, sandwich-like. Roll in confectioners' sugar.

MELT-IN-YOUR-MOUTH LEMON CUTOUTS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and extracts. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and salt; gradually beat into creamed mixture., Preheat oven to 375°. Divide dough in half. On a lightly floured surface, roll each portion to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 3-in. flower-shaped cookie cutter. Place 1 in. apart on greased baking sheets., Bake 6-8 minutes or until edges are light brown. Cool on pans 2 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool completely., For frosting, in a bowl, beat cream cheese, shortening and extracts until blended. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar until smooth. Spread over cookies; sprinkle with colored sugar. Let stand until set. Store in airtight containers in the refrigerator.

MELT IN YOUR MOUTH LEMON BARS

Steps:

• 1. Mix crust ingredients with a fork as you would for a pie crust. Pat into a 9x13 pan which has been greased and floured. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.
• 2. As crust is baking, mix filling.
• 3. After crust has baked for 15 minutes pour filling over crust and continue baking for 25 minutes. Cool bars completely.
• 4. Make frosting by beating butter, powdered sugar, and milk for 6 to 8 minutes on high speed. Then add 2 tbsp cold water one at a time. Beat until smooth.
• 5. Spread over cooled bars.

LEMON SHORTBREAD COOKIES

Steps:

• Using a stand mixer with paddle attachment mix together softened butter with zest of 2 lemons making sure to scrape down sides halfway through mixing.
• Mix granulated sugar with butter just until combined and then mix in lemon extract.
• Sift together flour and salt. With stand mixer turned off, add all of the flour mixture and mix on the lowest speed until dough just comes together, about 2 mins.
• Place dough on lightly floured surface and form into a disk. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 30 mins.
• Preheat oven to 350℉. Zest 3rd lemon and mix with sparkling sugar.
• Roll chilled dough into 1/2 inch thickness and form into a rectangle as best as possible. Using a sharp knife cut cookies into 1 inch by 3 inch rectangles.
• Using a spatula place cookies on 2 ungreased cookie sheets. Evenly sprinkle each cookie with sparkling sugar mixture.
• Bake for 20-25 mins or until corners turn a light golden brown, making sure to turn cookie trays halfway through baking. Let cookies cool on cookie sheets.

MELT IN YOUR MOUTH LEMON SNOWDROPS

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 400*.
• In a medium bowl, mix the butter/margarine, 1/2 cup powdered sugar and the lemon extract.
• Stir in the flour and salt.
• If the dough is too soft, refrigerate a few hours until it's firm enough to shape.
• Shape dough into 1" balls.
• Place about 1" apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Flatten slightly with the bottom of a glass dipped in granulated sugar.
• Bake 8-10 minute or until the edges are light brown.
• Immediately remove from the cookie sheet to cool.
• Put the cookies together in pairs with the filling and then dust with the powdered sugar.
• For the Filling: Mix the sugar and cornstarch in a 1 quart saucepan.
• Stir in the remaining ingredients.
• Cooking over medium heat, keep stirring constantly until the mixture thickens and comes to a boil.
• Boil 1 minute, stirring all the while, then cool.
• Enjoy!

MELT IN YOUR MOUTH PIE

Steps:

• Gently combine the sweetened condensed milk, lemon juice, coconut, chopped nuts and drained crushed pineapple. Fold in the whipped topping. Pour batter into the prepared pie shell. Refrigerate for several hours before serving.

SNOWDROPS

Steps:

• Beat butter until creamy; add sugar and blend some more. Mix in the flour, nuts, vanilla and water.
• Chill until firm enough to shape with your fingers into small round balls.
• Bake at 400 F for 10 minutes, but watch them - remember they are snow drops, shouldn't even turn golden.
• Roll in sifted icing sugar as soon as you remove them from the oven. Mmm, toasty fingers coated in melted sugar!