Flaky Lemon Vanilla Cookies. In large bowl mix all ingredients with hand. Knead well until ingredients are blended. Keyword: baked good, baking, coconut oil, cookie, cookies, dessert, lemon, snack, vanilla. In a large bowl, combine flour and salt. Cut in cold butter and cream cheese until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

Shape into a disk; wrap in plastic. Combine the flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, salt and lemon zest. Add in the cold, cubed butter and use your hands or a pastry cutter to cut in the butter until pea sized amounts of butter remain. You can cook Flaky Lemon Vanilla Cookies using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Flaky Lemon Vanilla Cookies

It's 114 gms of Salted Butter or Margarine.
It's 2 Tablespoons of Cornstarch.
It's 1 3/4 Cups of All Purpose Flour.
It's 1/2 Cup of Castor Sugar.
It's 2 Teaspoons of Vanilla Essence/ 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract.
Prepare 1 Teaspoon of Grated Lemon Zest.
It's 1 Teaspoon of Cocoa Powder.

Create a well in the center and add the buttermilk, vanilla extract, and egg. Place the pastry onto the baking sheet and roll it out slightly, using a rolling pin to make it even. Spread the apple mixture evenly down the center of the pastry lengthwise. Fold the sides of the pastry around the apples.

Flaky Lemon Vanilla Cookies step by step

In a bowl cream butter with the sugar using an electric mixer or wooden spoon until the consistency is pale in color and well mixed..
Add Vanilla Essence/Extract together with the lemon zest and incorporate well..
Sieve the Flour and Cornstarch, add into the bowl and mix until just incorporated. Do not over mix..
Take out the dough, place onto a lighly floured surface and gather it together lightly. Separate into two batches. Add Cocoa Powder into one of the batches and mix well..
Using your hands, divide the dough into small balls and roll them between the palms of your hands. Place them on a cookie sheet and use two fingers to flatten them slightly..
Bake for 15-20 minutes at 163 Degrees Centigrade until the edges begin to brown slightly. Do not let the cookies become brown, otherwise they will become hard when they cool down. Remove from the oven and let them cool completely.Store them in an air tight container. Enjoy..

An easily searchable category listing of every recipe by type on the Flaky Bakers website.. If you do not cream the butter and sugar cookies well, the cookies will be flaky. Vanilla extract - I like using vanilla extract. But it also has the tendency to color the dough. So, if you need a white or fair mixture just add clear vanilla extract or rose essence.