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Soft Lemon Cookies.

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

Ingredients of Soft Lemon Cookies

1. You need 100 g of Butter *softened.
2. Prepare 1/2 cup of Caster Sugar.
3. Prepare 1 of Egg Yolk.
4. It's of *Note: You can use whole Egg. In that case, you need to add extra Flour.
5. It's of Zest and Juice of 1 Lemon.
6. You need 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 directions

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..