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Holiday - Dessert
Lemon Shortbread Wreaths
The only thing more precious than these cookies are the memories you'll create while you bake them!
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Family baking isn't just about creating delicious treats. It's about creating memories that will last a lifetime.
Ingredients
- 1 cup salted butter, at room temp
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 2 large Dakota Layers egg yolks, at room temp
- 1 lemon zest only
- 2 tbs or half a lemon, lemon juice
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- For decorating. sprinkles, nuts, freeze dried fruit, etc
Lemon Glaze
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp light corn syrup
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp or half a lemon lemon juice
- 1/2 cup water
Instructions
- In the bowl of a stand mixer cream the butter and brown sugar until well combined, about 3 minutes.
- Add the egg yolks, lemon zest, lemon juice, and vanilla extract. Mix until well combined, about another 2-3 minutes.
- Add the flour and mix until the dough begins to form and pull away from the sides of the bowl. Wrap in plastic and chill in the fridge for 1 hour.
- When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 385 degrees F and line 2-4 cookie sheets with parchment paper. You will use 4 sheets, but if you only have 2 you can work in batches.
- On a lightly floured surface roll out the dough to about ⅓” thickness. Cut out the wreaths using varying sizes of scalloped round cookie cutters. Re roll scraps and repeat until all of the dough is used
- Use an offset spatula to transfer the cookies onto the prepared pans. Freeze for 10 minutes before baking. If you don’t, the cookies will spread in the oven.
- Bake frozen cookies for 8 minutes, or until the edges just start to brown. Repeat until all of the cookies are baked.
- Let cookies cool on hot cookie sheets for a couple minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack.
- While cookies cool, make the lemon glaze.
Lemon Glaze
- Add all of the glaze ingredients to a wide but shallow bowl and whisk until smooth.
- Invert cooled cookies into the lemon glaze and lift up, allowing any excess glaze to fall back into the bowl. Decorate cookies with sprinkles, crushed nuts, freeze dried fruits, etc…
- Allow glaze to set, then enjoy!
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