Recipe: Perfect Lemon biscuits

Lemon biscuits. Use lemon extract to make this recipe for lemon-flavored tea biscuits that go great with hot beverages or as an anytime snack. These biscuits are dead easy to make and perfect for a simple gift. If you fancy jazzing them up for Christmas, try using an orange in place of the lemons and add a pinch of cinnamon to your demerara - lovely and festive! Beat the butter and sugar in a bowl with an electric mixer until creamy. Lemon biscuits These lemon biscuits are a really easy tasty treat.

These lemon biscuits or lemon shortbread cookies, are a delicious twist on our favourite fork biscuits. Then there's egg, flour and baking soda. Then comes a flavour hit, thanks to freshly squeezed lemon juice and freshly grated lemon zest. You can cook Lemon biscuits using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Lemon biscuits

1. It's of Zest of 2 lemons.
2. Prepare 1/2 cup of unsalted butter 113g.
3. It's 3/4 cup of granulated sugar 150g.
4. Prepare 2 cups of plain flour 240g.
5. It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
6. You need 2 tbsp of cornstarch.
7. You need 1 tsp of baking soda.
8. Prepare 1 of large egg.
9. Prepare 1 tbsp of lemon extract.
10. Prepare 2 tbsp of lemon juice.

Once the cookies are baked and cooled, it's time for a simple two ingredient lemon glaze. This drippy icing brings out the lemon flavour of the cookies and adds a little sweet tang. Lemon cream biscuits are best served warm from the oven, with soft salted butter. And if you want an extra special treat, make some whipped lemon-vanilla bean butter.

Lemon biscuits instructions

1. Mix the lemon zest and sugar in a blender.
2. Sift flour, salt, corn starch, baking soda and whisk together.
3. Beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Mix in egg, lemon juice and lemon extract.
4. Add dry to wet mixture and beat until combined.
5. Cover and chill the dough in the fridge for at least half an hour.
6. Preheat oven to gas mark 4 and and spread 2 tbsp sized dough about 2 inches apart on greaseproof paper on a flat baking tray..
7. Bake for 10 minutes, take out of the oven and allow to cool.

Its sweetened, fluffy goodness is undeniably wonderful. Lemon biscuits are a delightful treat perfect for any time of year. They're easy to whip together, requiring only flour, sugar, butter and a few other ingredients. These light-as-air, lemony treats will melt on your tongue. In another bowl, whisk yogurt, egg, melted butter and lemon zest until blended.