Tea Cakes
Delicious Cookies Recipies
Yield: 3 dozen
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Preparation
- Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add sugar, beating well. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until blended after each addition. Add vanilla extract, beating until blended
- Combine flour, soda, and salt; gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture, beating at low speed until blended after each addition
- Divide dough in half; wrap each portion in plastic wrap, and chill 1 hour
- Roll half of dough to 1/4-inch thickness on a floured surface. Cut out cookies with a 2 1/2-inch round cutter, and place 1 inch apart on parchment paper-lined baking sheets
- Bake at 350° for 10 to 12 minutes or until edges begin to brown; let stand on baking sheet 5 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool. Repeat procedure with remaining dough. Your cookies recipies are ready!
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Lemon Bars
Delicious Cookies Recipies
Yield: 15 bars (serving size: 1 bar)
Ingredients
Crust:
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2/3 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 large egg yolk
Filling:
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 1/4 cups sugar
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 1 cup fresh lemon juice (from 5 or 6 lemons)
- 6 large eggs plus 1 large yolk
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
Preparation
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Grease a 9-by-13-inch pan; line with parchment paper. Lay another sheet of parchment crosswise, leaving a 2-inch overhang on both sides
- Pulse flour, confectioners’ sugar, cornstarch and salt in a food processor. Pulse in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal. Pulse in yolk until mixture comes together
- Press into an even 1/4-inch-thick layer in pan. Freeze for 15 minutes. Bake, rotating halfway through, until crust is lightly browned, about 20 minutes
- Make filling: Mix flour and sugar. Whisk in lemon zest and juice. Whisk eggs, yolk and salt into lemon mixture
- Pour lemon mixture over warm crust. Reduce oven temperature to 300ºF. Bake until filling is just set in center, about 30 minutes. Let cool completely in pan on a wire rack, then cover and refrigerate until cold, at least 1 hour. Dust with confectioners’ sugar, if desired. Your cookies recipies are ready!