Citrus Cookies recipe

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Ingredients

½ cup butter
⅔ cup white sugar
⅛ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 teaspoons lemon zest
6 drops yellow food coloring
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

Nutrition Info

84.1 calories
carbohydrate: 11.6 g
cholesterol: 10.2 mg
fat: 3.9 g
fiber: 0.2 g
protein: 0.9 g
saturatedFat: 2.4 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 39.5 mg
sugar: 5.6 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Cream together butter or margarine and sugar. Add salt, zest, juice, and food coloring. Mix until well blended.

  2. Add flour a half cup at a time, mixing well. Dough should ball up when finished. Shape into a cylinder about 2 1/2 inches in diameter. Chill for 4 hours.

  3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).

  4. Slice into 24 cookies and bake on cookie sheet 6 to 8 minutes.

Recipe Yield

2 dozen

Recipe Note

Sugar cookies with a definite citrus flavor. For lime cookies substitute lime juice, lime zest, and green food coloring. For orange cookies, substitute orange juice, orange zest and orange food coloring.

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