Simplest way to Prepare Perfect Soft Lemon Cookies

Soft Lemon Cookies.

You can prepare Soft Lemon Cookies using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Soft Lemon Cookies

1. You need 100 g of Butter *softened.
2. Prepare 1/2 cup of Caster Sugar.
3. It's 1 of Egg Yolk.
4. You need of *Note: You can use whole Egg. In that case, you need to add extra Flour.
5. Prepare of Zest and Juice of 1 Lemon.
6. It's 1 cup of (*250ml) Self-Raising Flour *and extra 3-4 tablespoons if you use whole Egg.
7. It's 3-4 tablespoons of Icing Sugar for coating.

Soft Lemon Cookies instructions

1. Mix softened Butter and Sugar until smooth. Add Egg Yolk (OR Whole Egg) and mix until creamy. Add Lemon Zest and Juice, and mix well. It may look curdled..
2. Add Self-Raising Flour, mix to combine. At this stage, the dough is too soft to roll. Place in the fridge for a while to firm up..
3. Preheat oven to 170 to 180C. Line a large baking tray (OR 2 trays) with baking paper..
4. Roll the dough into 20 balls, about 3cm size. Then roll the balls in Icing Sugar to coat well, and place on the prepared tray(s). Cookies need plenty space around each..
5. Bake for about 15 minutes or until lightly golden. Cool on wire racks..