Glazed Lemon cookies

This is like a citrus party in your mouth.


2 c flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest, plus 2 tbspns fresh lemon juice (you need 2 lemons for this recipe)
1/2 c butter, room temp
1 c granulated sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla
lemon glaze (recipe follows)

1. preheat ove to 350. in bowl whisk together flour, b soda, salt and lemon zest. in large bow with mixer beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. add egg, vanilla and lemon juice and beat until combined. beat in flour mixture.

**side note. i've never seen my butter/sugar mixture 'light and fluffy'. it's always grainy and weird. so i just beat it until i feel like not beating it anymore. ha.


2. drop dough by heaping tablespoons 1 inch apart onto 2 baking sheets. bake until edges are golden 15-20 minutes rotating sheets halfway through. let cool 2 minutes on sheeets, then transfer cookies to wire rack to cool completely. spread cookies with lemon glaze and let set, about 1 hour.


**another side note: Mom failed to introduce us to the cookie scoop. i just bought one the other day and it has changed my cookie-dropping-by-heaping-tablespoon-life. Mom always used a spoon, which in one regard is nice b/c you get to lick your fingers and absorb a bunch of the cookie dough, which is always a positive. but then your fingers are always kinda sticky. with the cookie scoop the art of dropping cookies by heaping tablespoons and having exactly the same sized cookies is made completely easy. i'm a big fan.


Lemon Glaze:

in medium bowl whisk together 2 c confectioners sugar, 2 tbspn finely grated lemon zest, and 1/3 c fresh lemon juice until smooth.


** i had to keep adding powdered sugar b/c i think i had too much lemon juice. oh well, my cookies are just very glazed and less iced.