Little Offerings
Lemon Shortbread
Buttery shortbread with lemon zest and a snowfall of icing sugar.
Little Offerings
Lemon Shortbread
Recipe at a glance
- Prep time
- 15 mins
- Cook time
- 12 mins
- Total time
- 35 mins
- Servings
- About 20 cookies
Bright, sunny shortbread flecked with lemon zest. The perfume alone lifts the whole kitchen — a lovely fresh note among the sweeter offering offerings.
A Little Offering
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Ingredients
7 items
Step-by-step method
Family-friendly
Two lists so everyone knows their job — grown-ups handle heat and blades, little hands do the fun bits.
🧒 Little Baker Jobs
- 🍋 Roll the lemons on the counter to loosen them.
- 🥄 Stir the dough with a spatula.
- 🍪 Press out the biscuit shapes.
- ❄️ Sift icing sugar over the cooled biscuits.
👩 Grown-Up Jobs
- 🔪 Zest and juice the lemons.
- 🔥 Preheat the oven to 170°C.
- ♨️ Bake and cool the biscuits.
Full detailed method
- 1Cream butter, icing sugar and lemon zest until pale and fragrant.
- 2Add lemon juice, flour and salt. Bring to a soft dough. Chill 15 mins.
- 3Roll to ½ cm thick and cut into rounds or squares.
- 4Bake at 170°C for 10–12 mins until pale. Cool, then dust with icing sugar.
Printed from bakewithkrutika.com/recipes/annakut-lemon-shortbread
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