Lemon Thumbprint Cookies

Ready in : 45 mins

Lemon Thumbprint Cookies takes around 45 minutes from beginning to end. This recipe serves 42. This dessert has 74 calories, 1g of protein, and 3g of fat per serving. For 14 cents per serving, this recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have butter, lemon juice, granulated sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. This recipe from Foodista has 9 fans. With a spoonacular score of 9%, this dish is improvable.

Ingredients

butter

3 ounces

egg yolks

4

flour

2.5 cups

granulated sugar

0.5 cup

kosher salt

0.5 teaspoon

lemon curd

1 cup

lemon juice

1 tablespoon

lemon zest

1

Cooking in Steps

1
Pre heat oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.With a mixer, beat butter and sugar together in a large bowl until well combined. Beat in yolks, lemon zest, lemon juice, and salt.On low speed, beat in flour just until large moist clumps form. You may need to use your hands at this point to form one large ball.

lemon juice

lemon zest

butter

all purpose flour

sugar

egg yolk

salt

baking paper

baking sheet

blender

bowl

oven
2
Roll tablespoons of dough into balls.

dough

roll
3
Place balls on prepared baking sheets about 1 inch apart. Make a deep indentation in center of each ball.

baking sheet
4
Bake cookies until firm and lightly golden on bottom, about 18 to 20 minutes.

cookies

oven
5
Remove cookies from oven and immediately fill indentations with curd.

cookies

oven
6
Sprinkle with confectioners sugar before serving.

powdered sugar