Lemon Melting Moments Cookies, A wonderful gentle lemon flavor with a melting sensation! Easy recipe and great for the holidays! Have you ever taken a bite of a cookie and had that 'melting' sensation in your mouth? It's certainly a wonderful feeling indeed!.
Here, after much trial and error, I've come up with a cookie which gives you that 'melting moment', with a hint of refreshing lemon on your taste buds, and a texture so delicate and scrumptious.
This cookie recipe is designed to have a little 'melting effect' in the oven so don't panic! It will spread a little during cooking, and that just adds to the deliciousness.
We have lots of popular butter cookies so be sure to bookmark them for trying later!
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Prep time
15 minutes
Baking time
8-10 mins
Serving size
3 1/2 Dozen
Equipment
an UN-GREASED baking tray
Ingredients
3/4 cup or170 g butter
1/2 cup or 60 g confectioners sugar
2 Tablespoon water
1 teaspoon lemon extract
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups or 190 g sifted All Purpose / plain flour
Instructions
1. Placed sieved flour and sieved confectioners’ sugar in a large mixing bowl.
2. Add butter in 1 cm pieces (distribute evenly over the flour)
3. Add water, lemon extract and vanilla extract
4. Mix together very well using hands until the ingredients form a dough. You should be able to have a ‘clean’ mixing bowl with no crumbs.
5. Cover with parchment & place in the freezer for 10 minutes to firm up.
6. Fill the cookie press half full and use a template of your choice, or roll out to 1 cm thick and use a cookie cutter. Place cookies on the UN GREASED baking tray about a hand width apart.
7. Bake in preheated oven at 350F, 180C, Gas 4 for 10 minutes or until the edges just begin to slightly brown. (see photo)
8. Remove from the oven, cool for 5 minutes on the baking tray then transfer to cooling rack
If your cookies have joined together after taking them out the oven, use a knife or plastic cutter to separate them whilst they are hot. Once they cool, it will be messy to try and cut them.
We'd love to hear from you and what you thought of our lemon melting moment cookies recipe. Did you make any changes or add some other goodies? Let us know in the comments below. Thanks for reading and happy cooking!
Recipe Card
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup or170 g butter
- 1/2 cup or 60 g confectioners sugar
- 2 Tablespoon water
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups or 190 g sifted All Purpose / plain flour
Instructions
- Place sieved flour and sieved confectioners’ sugar in a large mixing bowl.
- Add butter in 1 cm pieces (distribute evenly over the flour)
- Add water, lemon extract and vanilla extract
- Mix together very well using hands until the ingredients form a dough. You should be able to have a ‘clean’ mixing bowl with no crumbs.
- Cover with parchment & place in the freezer for 10 minutes to firm up.
- Fill the cookie press half full and use a template of your choice, or roll out to 1 cm thick and use a cookie cutter. Place cookies on the UN GREASED baking tray about a hand width apart.
- Bake in preheated oven at 350F, 180C, Gas 4 for 10 minutes or until the edges just begin to slightly brown. (see photo)
- Remove from the oven, cool for 5 minutes on the baking tray then transfer to cooling rack
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 42 Serving Size: 42Amount Per Serving: Calories: 52Total Fat: 3gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 9mgSodium: 26mgCarbohydrates: 5gFiber: 0gSugar: 1gProtein: 1g
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giovanni
says:hello!love to try this cookies its my favorate
Debra k
says:Mine wouldn’t come out of the gun. I wonder if I shouldn’t have put them in the freezer ten minutes? The gun recipes say not to.
Lovefoodies
says:Hi Debra, sorry to hear that. I hope you let it soften a bit and then tried again using the gun. It sounds like the dough went just too long n the freezer, as you know, some freezers will chill food faster than others. You just need to make sure the dough is chilled, but obviously not so cold and frozen you can’t get it through the gun.
Hope that helps!
Firoza
says:Could i use sr flour
Adri Barr Crocetti
says:Well now don’t those cookies sound great! I love lemon cookies, and so I must try these. Warmest wishes to you for a joyous holiday season and a brilliant new year!
Ashley
says:Wanting to makes these! Can I use fresh lemon juice instead of extract?
Lovefoodies
says:Hi Ashley! I am not sure about using the lemon juice, simply because I thought about using it myself, but then decided against it, incase it would affect the batter mixture in consistency. (you would need lots more lemon juice to bring out the flavor than you would lemon extract). So unfortunately, I can’t say it would work, or not work! Sorry that isn’t much help but I’d rather be honest and tell you I haven’t tried it myself to be certain!
If you do try it, please let us know so we can update the recipe with your feedback :)
Have a super duper Christmas!
Sandra Roberts
says:I added very fine Lemon Zest to my mix (about 1.5 TBS) it gives it a much more tart taste like real lemon Juice has. Absolutely delish
Reesa Lewandowski
says:These are my favorite type of cookies
Renee(Renee'sKitchenAdventures
says:Lemon <3!!!!
2justByou
says:I love lemon everything!
lovefoodies
says:Thanks!
Dan from Platter Talk
says:Loving these little bits of lemon sweetness!
lovefoodies
says:Thanks Dan!
Donna Giblin
says:These look right up my alley but I don’t have a cookie gun (and we’ve retired and downsized and I don’t have room to store one). Anyway to make these without a cookie gun? Thanks
lovefoodies
says:Hi Donna, yes, of course you can use your hands to shape these, I have another recipe using the butter cookie dough, so if you would like to take a look here, in particular, STEP 6, I give easy instructions for making using your hands. https://lovefoodies.com/nutty-melting-moments-cookies.html The texture will be just the same, you just get a different pattern of course, but they will still be delicious!
Happy Baking
Rhonda Fleming Delgado
says:In this recipe, should the butter be cold, room temp. or melted. Getting ready to make them & wanted to know before I made a mistake……:)
lovefoodies
says:Hi Rhonda, the butter should be cold and in cubes (I place mine in the freezer to make it real cold!) The dough once you’ve made it, needs to also be chilled before placing in the oven. This just helps it from spreading too much in the oven due to the high butter content. Don’t worry if they spread a little, that is normal. and be sure to have a cup of tea ready for your first cookie!
Lynn
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lovefoodies
says:I have removed the follow us strip, but as a consequence, the print button has also had to move to the top of the navigation bar! Thanks for your feedback Lynn.
Goodcookwannab
says:I had trouble getting the cookies to release from the cookie gun, so I rolled them into small balls and then flattened them with the palm of my hand. I did add one thing. I sprinkled the tops with “true lemon”. They came out so good. My husband is a lemon anything lover, He’ll gobble these down without hesitation lol.
lovefoodies
says:Hi! So glad hubby loved them! You do need some real good muscles to use the cookie gun as the dough can be quite stiff, but what you did is also perfect, I used a cookie gun to get a fancy pattern! No other reason :) I like your idea of the ‘true lemon’ on the tops too!
Firoza
says:Could i use sr flour
Anne Herrin
says:I really don’t like when people give a review and say they changed it, but I’m going to be one of those people today. BUT only because I didn’t have any lemon extract on hand and I reallllly wanted these! lol I used lemon juice out of a bottle and deleted the 2 T water and they turned out delicious! I can just imagine how delicious these would be when I actually use the recipe as written. Thanks!
lovefoodies
says:Anne! That is truly inspired what you did! and i can imagine even grating a bit of lemon zest in the dough wow!!! I love hearing how everyone makes a recipe, so thank you! love new ideas :)
Susan
says:Thanks so much, Anne! I don’t keep lemon extract on hand either, but will try the juice!
Patti Winters
says:My Mom would love these cookies. She loves anything lemon.
lovefoodies
says:You will have to make her very happy and make some for Mother’s Day Patti!