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Gluten-Free Lemony Soft Cookies
20 Min + 2 Hrs To Chill The Dough • Servings: About 24 Cookies
These gluten-free lemony soft cookies are perfect for satisfying your sweet tooth while catering to dietary needs. They are moist, buttery and delicate, with an incredible fragrant lemon flavor. The lemon flavor comes from an abundance of lemon zest and a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice, which adds a tangy zing to the cookies. These cookies incredibly easy to make! Just a bowl, whisk, spatula, few fresh ingredients, and you’re good to go!
¾ Cups Caster/Superfine or Granulated Sugar, for rolling the cookies before baking
½ Stick + 1 tbsp Unsalted Butter, melted and cooled until warm (Sub with Dairy-free Butter)
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How to do it
USE a large bowl to combine the melted butter with the eggs, lemon zest, and two tablespoons of lemon juice. Whisk well until combined.
ADD two cups of the Dilettoso Vava Vanilla mix and use a wooden spoon or a rubber spatula to combine, until you get a smooth, batter-like cookie dough. At this stage, the cookie dough is supposed to look very soft and sticky, do not add more flour!
CHILL the cookie dough in the fridge for at least 2 hours before proceeding to the next step. This is a crucial step, do not skip it! You can also keep it in the fridge overnight, if you wish to bake the cookies the next day.
PREHEAT the oven to 350ºF and line 2 large baking sheets with parchment/baking paper.
SHAPE about 1 tablespoon of the chilled cookie dough into a ball. You should get about 24 cookies in total.
ROLL each ball in powdered/icing sugar until it's fully coated.
PLACE the cookie dough balls on the lined baking sheets, at least 1 ½-2 inches apart.
BAKE at 350ºF for 10-12 minutes or until the cookies have risen and expanded into little rounded mounds with cracks in their sugar coating. The cookies are done when the cracks no longer look wet or shiny.
ALLOW the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for at least 10 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely. The will be very soft and delicate immediately out of the oven so don't skip this step.
Even after it's been thoroughly chilled, the cookie dough will be still slightly soft and sticky. If the cookie dough sticks to your hands as you go to roll it into a ball, you can lightly dust your hands with a bit of powdered/icing sugar. This will prevent sticking!