Lemon Drop Cookies

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Norfolk, Virginia
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Ingredients

  1. Cookies
  2. 1/2 cupsugar
  3. 1/4 cupvegetable shortening
  4. 3 largeeggs
  5. 1 1/2 tsplemon extract
  6. 2 cupflour
  7. 1 1/2 tspbaking powder
  8. 1/4 tspsalt
  9. Icing
  10. 3 cuppowdered sugar
  11. 1/4 cupwater
  12. 1 tsplemon extract

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Preheat over to 350º.

  2. 2

    Lightly grease a cookie sheet and set aside.

  3. 3

    For COOKIES: Cream together sugar amd shortening.

  4. 4

    Add eggs and lemon extract and beat well.

  5. 5

    Add flour, baking powder and salt; mix well. The dough should be soft and sticky.

  6. 6

    With a small cookie schoop, drop dough onto the prepared cookie sheet, spacing them about 2" apart.

  7. 7

    Bake for 12-15 min.s, or until firm and lightly brown.

  8. 8

    Remove cookies from cookie sheet and allow to cool completly.

  9. 9

    For ICING: Combine powdered sugar, water, and lemon extract and mix until smooth.

  10. 10

    Sprwad icing onto thw tops ofbthe cookies with a metal spatula.

  11. 11

    Allow cookies to dry before stacking.

  12. 12

    Store in an airtight container.

  13. 13

    ~NOTE~ If you want to freeze the cookies, freeze uniced and add icing once thawed.

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