LEMON CLOUD TEA COOKIES

By á-170560

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup cornstarch
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon or orange extract
• 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon or orange zest

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Combine the flour, cornstarch, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
Combine the butter and confectioners’ sugar in the bowl of the electric mixer. Beat on low speed with the paddle until well mixed. Increase the speed to medium and continue beating until light, about 2 minutes.
Beat in the eggs one at a time. Batter may look broken and curdled. Beat in the extracts and zest.
Decrease the speed to low and beat in the flour. Remove the bowl from the mixer and give the dough a few good turns with your spatula to bring it all together.
Arrange rounded teaspoons of the dough on a pan lined with parchment paper. Space the balls about 2-inches apart. After all the cookies have been placed on the pan, flour a fork and press a crisscross design into the top of each mound of dough. Bake the cookies until they spread and become golden, about 20 minutes. Slide the parchment paper off the pan to cool completely. Makes 48 tiny cookies.

Keep the cookies between sheets of wax paper in a plastic container with a tight lid.