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Lemony Sandwich Cookies

Lemony Sandwich Cookies: sunny and lemony melt-in-your-mouth sandwich cookies with fresh lemon juice and lemon zest in both cookie dough and filling!

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Lemony Sandwich Cookies
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings 19 sandwich cookies

Ingredients

  • Cookie dough ingredients:
  • 1 cup + 1 Tbsp cake flour
  • 5 Tbsp icing sugar
  • 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp lemon zest
  • 1 tsp fresh lemon juice
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1 egg
  • 1/3 cup unsalted butter
  • Extra flour for the working surface
  • Filling ingredients:
  • 1 egg
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 4 Tbsp sugar
  • 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp lemon zest
  • 2 Tbsp unsalted butter, room temperature
  • icing sugar to dust the cookies, optional

Instructions

  1. On clean working surface, combine, using your hands, flour, icing sugar, vanilla extract, lemon zest, baking powder, salt, egg and butter. You will get soft and smooth dough.
  2. Preheat the oven to 180 C / 356 F.

  3. Cover baking pans with baking paper and leave aside.

  4. Flour the working surface and roll the dough to be 4 mm ( 0.16 inch ) thick and cut the shapes out ( 19 with and 19 without a hole ).
  5. Lay the cookies on the baking paper and bake for 9 – 10 minutes.
  6. Take them out and cool.

  7. For the filling, use small pot and slowly boil egg, egg yolk, sugar and vanilla extract. Stir constantly for 3 minutes until the filling becomes thick.

  8. Leave aside to cool completely.
  9. Add butter and combine to get smooth filling.

  10. To assemble the cookies, use one whole cookie and one with a hole. Spread filling on the whole cookie and gently press the other one to it. ½ tsp of filling is enough to assemble each sandwich cookie.

  11. Dust with icing sugar before serving, optional.