Lemon Ricotta Cookies

Ingredients:


for the cookies:
1 1/3 cups  flour
1/2  teaspoon baking powder
pinch salt
4 1/2 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
1 loving loving cup sugar
1 egg
8 oz whole milk ricotta cheese
1/4 loving loving cup lemon juice (about 1 large lemon's worth)
zest of ane lemon


for the glaze:
1 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
1/4 loving loving cup lemon juice (about 1 large lemon's worth)
zest of ane lemon

Directions:

for the cookies:

Preheat oven to 350. Line ii baking sheets with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.


In a medium-sized bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, inwards add-on to salt. Set aside.

Place the carbohydrate inwards add-on to butter inward the bowl of a stand upwards upward mixer or a large bowl, function an electrical mixer with the paddle attachment inwards add-on to mix the butter inwards add-on to carbohydrate until fluffy. Add the egg,  ricotta cheese, lemon juice, inwards add-on to lemon zest. Mix to combine. Stir inward the dry out out ingredients until a light, fluffy batter forms.

Spoon the dough (I used a medium cookie scoop for large-ish cookies) onto the lined baking sheets, placing each cookie unopen 1 inch apart. Bake for 12-15 minutes, until they are exactly starting fourth dimension to chocolate-brown at the edges. Remove from the oven. Carefully receive got away to a wire rack inwards add-on to cool 20-30 minutes.

for the glaze:

Place the wire rack (with the cookies soundless on it!) over a cookie sheet to catch drips.

Whisk together the glaze ingredients until shine glaze forms. Spoon 1 teaspoon glaze over each cookie, spreading to coat if desired.  Let the glaze gear upwards at to the lowest aeroplane 1-2 hours before packing into storage containers.

Yield: unopen ii dozen cookies, tin concur out easily doubled

My thoughts:

If yous follow me on Instagram, yous know that final calendar calendar week I got an opportunity to tally out Giada de Laurentiis' novel eating topographic point hither inward Baltimore. She was at that spot talking unopen her vision inwards add-on to fifty-fifty served me personally pasta! It was a lot of fun. Anyway, afterward a few of the guests had left, I heard her hollo for the staff if we were going to concur out served dessert. They didn't await to cause got planned it exactly she told them they had to serve us something sweetness (the eating topographic point wasn't officially open yet, this was a preview) inwards add-on to within a few minutes a few plates of lemon-ricotta cookies were brought out. OMG. I am such a chocolate cookie someone exactly these were seriously some of the best cookies I cause got e'er had. Light inwards add-on to fluffy soundless substantial inwards add-on to with a swell tart lemon-ricotta flavor. I would cause got dumped them inward my handbag had at that spot been whatever extras.

The side yesteryear side twenty-four lx minutes menses I went on my common trip to Aldi (plug for my Aldi fan spider spider web log here) inwards add-on to picked upward some lemons inwards add-on to ricotta thence I could recreate the cookies on my own. Influenza A virus subtype A footling experimenting inwards add-on to I came upward with this recipe. The cookies are a footling chip bigger than the ones I had at GDL Italian give thank y'all yous to the size of the cookie scoop I used. It is a fluffy, multifariousness of cake-like batter thence I felt similar a cookie scoop was needed vs exactly using a spoon. If yous wishing smaller cookies function a smaller cookie scoop or assay out using a spoon. It genuinely is upward to you! The fob to getting the perfect lemon-ricotta flavor is using total obese ricotta inwards add-on to a lot of lemon zest inwards add-on to juice. Citrus has a fashion to "bake out" of baked goods--this is why extracts are used inward a lot of recipes--but the zest retains the flavor a lot ameliorate thence don't concur out tempted to skip it fifty-fifty though it agency using actual lemons inwards add-on to not exactly bottled juice. I developed the recipe thence yous should entirely demand (and use) ii total lemons, I know citrus tin concur out pricey this quaternary dimension of yr inwards add-on to I detest waste.

If lemon-y, slightly tart, tangy cookies with a soft, almost cake-like texture intrigue you, these are the cookies for you! Seriously, ane of the best cookies I've made or fifty-fifty had ever! And I cause got made a ton of cookies inwards add-on to basically figurer programme vacations around bakeries thence this genuinely agency something.

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