Classic buttery shortbread cookies with an upgrade of bright fresh lemon season, sweetness white chocolate in addition to crisp pistachios. A fun alter from all the classic holiday cookies! These are certain to print yet they’re actually actually slow to brand!
Shortbread Cookies alongside Lemon together with White Chocolate!
Talk nigh perfect flavor pairing for cookies! Tangy zippy lemon with sweet vanilla white chocolate to residuum it out.
Everyone who tasted these loved them and of course I was totally smitten! It was ane of those treats that was difficult to photograph without sneaking bite afterward seize with teeth.
Most holiday cookie trays consist of classics similar peanut butter blossoms, chocolate crinkle cookies, gingerbread cookies, peppermint cookies together with saccharide cookies merely I’m thinking lemon cookies definitely deserve a home there. Who doesn’t dear lemon?
Plus lemons are inward season correct straight off so what ameliorate fourth dimension to brand these delicious lemony cookies?
Ingredients for Lemon Shortbread Cookies
- Unsalted butter
- Granulated sugar
- Lemons
- Salt
- Vanilla
- All-purpose flour
- Vanilla candy melts or white chocolate
- Unsalted pistachios (optional)
How to Make Lemon Shortbread Cookies
- In the bowl of an electrical stand up mixer cream together butter, carbohydrate, lemon zest and salt.
- Mix inward lemon juice together with vanilla extract.
- Add flour together with mix until well combined (it volition look sandy at showtime merely continue mixing too it volition come up together well).
- Scoop dough out together with compress dough alongside your hands (then they’re aren’t whatsoever holes inwards the centre).
- Shape into a 10-inch log on a lightly floured surface.
- Wrap inward parchment or plastic twine in addition to chill ii hours or until firm.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees during last xv minutes of chilling.
- Remove dough from fridge and piece log into ane/iii-inch thick slices.
- Transfer 12 slices to ungreased xviii by xiii-inch baking canvass and bake until bottoms are lightly aureate too cookies are prepare, well-nigh thirteen – sixteen minutes.
- Keep remaining dough chilled. Repeat procedure with remaining dough, adding slices to a clean, cool baking canvass.
- Let cookies cool on baking canvass 10 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Once cool melt vanilla candy melts or white chocolate inward a microwave safety bowl inward 30 second increments, stirring good between intervals until melted too shine.
- Dip one-half of each cooking in candy melts, shake off excess, and then transfer to a canvas or parchment paper. Sprinkle amongst chopped pistachios before is starts to fix.
- Let set and then shop inwards an airtight container at room temperature.
Tips for This Shortbread
- Only role real butter. Never role margarine or shortening inward shortbread.
- Use a zester to zest the lemon NOT a cheese grater.
- Be careful non to become whatsoever of the white lemon center when zesting, rotate the lemon equally you zest as well as function calorie-free force per unit area – otherwise cookies could be bitter.
- Don’t skip the chilling fourth dimension or cookies will spread manner too much. Cookies volition withal spread just about even later on chilling, then if non chilled at all you mightiness end upward with wafers.
- Use a ruler to measure out. I similar to at least measure out the starting time piece to get an thought of the correct thickness when cut.
How Should I Store Them?
Store them at room temperature for upward to 1 calendar week.
Can I Freeze These Cookies?
Yes these tin live frozen. Shortbread cookies freeze actually well. Freeze in an airtight container upwards to four – half dozen weeks.
More Delicious Christmas Cookies to Try!
- Butter Cookies (like Danish cookies inward the can)
- One Santa Cookie 1 super slowly to make chiliad&thou cookie
- Italian Ricotta Cookies (or endeavour the Orange Chocolate Chip Version)
- White Chocolate Dipped Ginger Cookies
- Chocolate Dipped Cranberry Cookies
- Mexican Wedding Cookies
White Chocolate Dipped Lemon Shortbread
Classic buttery shortbread amongst an upgrade of vivid fresh lemon flavour, sweet white chocolate and crisp pistachios. A delicious vacation cookie!
Servings: 26
Ingredients
- 1 cup (226g) unsalted butter, softened
- 3/4 cup (150g) granulated carbohydrate
- two one/ii Tbsp (15g) lemon zest (from nigh iv medium lemons)
- 1/four tsp table salt
- ii tsp fresh lemon juice
- i tsp vanilla extract
- two cups (284g) all-purpose flour (scoop too grade to measure out)
- 12 oz. vanilla candy melts or chopped white chocolate
- 1/iii loving cup (50g) unsalted pistachios, chopped (optional)
Instructions
- In the bowl of an electric stand up mixer cream together butter, saccharide, lemon zest together with common salt.
- Mix in lemon juice too vanilla extract.
- Add flour as well as mix until well combined (it volition look sandy at showtime just keep mixing as well as it volition come together well).
- Scoop dough out together with compress dough with your hands (and so they're aren't whatever holes inward the middle).
- Shape into a 10-inch log on a lightly floured surface.
- Wrap in parchment or plastic twine in addition to chill 2 hours or until business firm.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees during last fifteen minutes of chilling.
- Remove dough from fridge too slice log into 1/iii-inch thick slices. Transfer 12 slices to ungreased eighteen by xiii-inch baking canvass together with bake until bottoms are lightly aureate too cookies are set up, well-nigh thirteen - sixteen minutes.
- Keep remaining dough chilled. Repeat procedure amongst remaining dough, adding slices to a clean, cool baking canvas.
- Let cookies cool on baking canvass ten minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Once cool melt vanilla candy melts or white chocolate inward a microwave safe bowl inward thirty second increments, stirring well between intervals until melted together with smoothen.
- Dip half of each cooking in candy melts, milkshake off excess, and so transfer to a sheet or parchment paper. Sprinkle amongst chopped pistachios before is starts to set.
- Let set and then shop inwards an airtight container at room temperature.
Notes
Recipe inspired by Real Simple
Nutrition Facts
White Chocolate Dipped Lemon Shortbread
Amount Per Serving
Calories 164
Calories from Fat 81
% Daily Value*
Fat 9gfourteen%
Saturated Fat 6g38%
Cholesterol 18mg6%
Sodium 29mgone%
Potassium 33mgane%
Carbohydrates 18gvi%
Sugar 9gten%
Protein 1gtwo%
Vitamin A 220IUfour%
Vitamin C 1mg1%
Calcium 7mgi%
Iron 0.6mgiii%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Nutrition values are estimates solely. See total disclaimer here.