Hello to The 36th Avenue Readers. It’s Aniko from Place Of My Taste. Today, I am bringing something cheerful, springy, cute and delicious at the same time.These easy lemon sugar cookies are perfect to ring in spring and the the taste is so fresh. Sugar cookies are easy to make an they never last too long at my house.
It feels like a never ending snowy story here in VA. I can not believe that it’s mid March and looking out of the window I see that the roads are covered with snow again.Very depressing. I am really ready for spring and I am sure you all are too.
As Easter and Teacher Appreciation days are approaching fast , I made up these cute cookie flower pots.
We love making cookies, however we never really make icing covered cookies. I can never decorate beautifully with icing. I chose pink and blue to decorate but it’s really up to you what color you go with. I made my icing with powdered sugar , food coloring and little bit of water and dropped small dots on my cookies.
They turned out darling.
I bought these small flower pots at dollar store { 3/$1 } and dropped some colorful eggs in the bottom to hold the flower stick.
- 2¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- Zest of 2 large lemons
- ¾ cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 large egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- Using a mixer, beat together butter and sugar until smooth and creamy.
- Add lemon zest, egg, vanilla extract, and lemon juice. Mix until combined. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients.
- Roll out the cookie dough and cut flower shapes with cookie cutter.
- Place them on the baking sheet
- Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until cookies are slightly brown around the edges and set.
- As soon as you take it out from the oven, push small stick into your cookies before they cool.
- Let cookies sit on the baking sheets for two minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
- Decorate with icing
Recipe Adapted from: Two Peas and Their Pod
They are so super cute and will make adorable gifts for teachers or friends.
Grab Desiree’s Springy Printables { as she is the Queen of creating cute printables }
and print it to go along with these cute little flower pots for friends and family.
If you are going to give this to a teacher, print my free printables HERE.
What do you think?
At least I got my springy mood for now, and I am waiting for the the nice weather to arrive while I am eating these yummy, colorful lemon sugar cookies.
Here is another project that will get you right into springy mood. Come and learn how to make this easy
DIY TOTE bag using fabric napkins.
Or make this springy centerpiece with fresh tulips ♥
Thank You so much Desiree for sharing your space with me today. It’s always an honor to be here.
See you all next month!
Xoxo~
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So cute..would like to make these for gifts for friends. Do you have the little tags shown ? (Not the teacher ones) thank you for this idea!
Patty, you can find them here : http://www.the36thavenue.com/2013/04/free-printable-2.html