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Lemon Glazed Cookies

March 13, 2016 by Sarah / Maison Cupcake

Slice and bake cookies are super to have on standby for a freshly baked biscuit. This version is flavoured with lemon and topped with instant royal icing. Recipe post commissioned by The White Company.

Slice and bake cookies with lemon icing - so easy to make - keep the dough in the fridge or freezer and bake a few at a time. Decorated with instant royal icing flavoured with lemon juice

Truth be told I am much more of a biscuit fiend than I am an eater of cake. As you may know I am especially fond of decorating cookies but deem these more “art” than food.

Sometimes I just want to eat a proper biscuit and these lemon glazed cookies are a happy medium between chunky substantial biscuit you’d keep in a cookie jar and something pretty with some decoration.

I can happily ignore the bumper family tin of biscuits we inevitably receive around Christmas.

But homemade biscuits are a different matter. They burn a hole in my psyche and scupper my willpower. And that is where these slice and bake cookies fit the bill nicely.

You can make the dough in advance and keep it either in the fridge for a week or the freezer for one month. Simply slice off as many cookie dough discs as you need and bake a small batch on demand.

Slice and bake cookies with lemon icing - so easy to make - keep the dough in the fridge or freezer and bake a few at a time. Decorated with instant royal icing flavoured with lemon juice

These lemon cookies are displayed on the Porto Stoneware Heart Plate (£20) and in the large Bon Bon Jar (currently £40 reduced from £50). Both items are from the gorgeous range of home accessories you will find at The White Company.

I’ve been a fan of The White Company ever since discovering their store at Bluewater shopping centre in Kent many years ago. I invested in some of their towels with our wedding money back in 2004 and happy to report they still look and feel fabulous twelve years later. I also have a fondness for their nightwear – nothing like a soft cotton jersey cami or pyjama set to wear snuggling on the sofa.

Home-2008-Ted-1st-birthday-June - 8

Our other big purchase from The White Company was once a pair of wooden deckchairs! We bought them because they reminded us of a hotel we’d stayed in on Ile de Ré.

They’re very comfortable and you can rock about gently in them. This is the only photo I could find – taken on Ted’s 1st birthday back in 2008 which means we’ve been using them a very long time.

But enough nostalgia – I just wasted half an hour cooing at baby Ted pictures whilst looking for this – you want to know how to bake these glazed lemon cookies so here are the instructions below.

Easy to make slice and bake cookies with lemon icing - step by step

How to make lemon glazed cookies

Makes approx 24 cookies

Ingredients
250g butter, softened
200g icing sugar
1 tsp lemon extract
350g plain flour
75g cornflour
75ml milk
250g instant royal icing sugar
4-5 tbsp lemon juice
Finely grated lemon zest of 1 lemon
Yellow sprinkles and yellow food colouring (alternative decoration)

With a food processor, blitz the butter, icing sugar and lemon extract until light and fluffy.

In a large bowl, combine this mixture with the flour and rub together until it resembles bread crumbs.

Easy to make slice and bake cookies with lemon icing - step by step

Adding the milk, draw the mix together into dough.

Easy to make slice and bake cookies with lemon icing - step by step

Divide the dough into 2 balls and knead on a floured surface until smooth.

Easy to make slice and bake cookies with lemon icing - step by step

Roll the dough into logs 7-8cm diameter, wrap with cling film and chill for 1 hour. (Or freeze for up to 1 month). Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 3 / 160c.

Easy to make slice and bake cookies with lemon icing - step by step

When firm, slice the dough into 1cm thick discs, place 3cm apart on baking trays lined with baking parchment.

Easy to make slice and bake cookies with lemon icing - step by step

Bake for around 18-20 minutes until golden. Set aside to cool.

Easy to make slice and bake cookies with lemon icing - step by step

Meanwhile in a medium sized bowl, mix the instant royal icing with lemon juice spoon by spoon to gauge a consistency that just about pours.

Easy to make slice and bake cookies with lemon icing - step by step

Use a microplane grater to zest a lemon.

Easy to make slice and bake cookies with lemon icing - step by step

Spoon the icing onto the cooled cookies and whilst still wet scatter with lemon zest.

Easy to make slice and bake cookies with lemon icing - step by step

An alternative version is to add a touch of yellow food colouring to the icing and scatter with yellow sugar sprinkles.

Slice and bake cookies with lemon icing - so easy to make - keep the dough in the fridge or freezer and bake a few at a time. Decorated with instant royal icing flavoured with lemon juice

I hope you get chance to try these lemon cookies and don’t forget to check out more lovely home accessories over at The White Company.

Glazed lemon cookies recipe post commissioned by The White Company.

 

Filed Under: Branded Content, Recipes Tagged With: Baking, Biscuits, Cookies, Lemon, spring

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Sarah has published recipes on Maison Cupcake since 2009 and lives in London.
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Comments

  1. Sheena says

    March 13, 2016 at 7:36 pm

    These sound delicious….where can I find the recipe? I have looked at the White Company site and cannot find this recipe. Thanks

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      March 14, 2016 at 5:48 pm

      They will be publishing it in a more printable format there as well but the text will be exactly same as the captions to step by step pictures above.

  2. Stephanie Jane says

    March 13, 2016 at 7:53 pm

    These look really good 🙂
    I don’t think that ‘just bake a few at a time’ idea is going to work for us!!

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      March 14, 2016 at 5:47 pm

      Ha ha well one can try 😉

  3. Kerry @ Kerry Cooks says

    March 13, 2016 at 9:02 pm

    These look SO good Sarah! I can just imagine how zesty and lemon they taste

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      March 14, 2016 at 5:47 pm

      Ooh they are – even my husband commented and he’s not usually especially enthusiastic about things I make!!

  4. Mardi (eat. live. travel. write.) says

    March 14, 2016 at 6:15 am

    These DO look good Sarah! Always good to have slice and bake biscuits on hand! I’m wondering about the instant royal icing though – where does one get that, then?

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      March 14, 2016 at 5:45 pm

      It’s sold in all major supermarkets in the UK – hadn’t realised it wasn’t a “thing” everywhere! You can of course sub with an egg white version – recipe for which is elsewhere on here and I’ll add a link in at some point.

  5. Helen at Casa Costello says

    March 15, 2016 at 6:32 pm

    I love a good lemon cookie – The decoration possibilities are endless. I have serious envy for your BonBon jar! Thanks for all your hard work on #BakeoftheWeek this week.

  6. Winnie says

    March 28, 2016 at 10:45 am

    These look wonderful!! My family loooooooves lemon flavor and they’d looooooove these cookies!

  7. Best Bake says

    March 30, 2016 at 10:40 am

    Yummy Cookies! Thanks for sharing such an amazing recipe with us. Really loved to visit your blog.

    Keep Posting

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