Directions

• Step 1 1. Preheat the Oven to 400 F
• Step 2 2. Cream your butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
• Step 3 3. Add eggs one at a time and blend in. Mix in vanilla, lemon juice and lemon extract.
• Step 4 4. In a separate bowl sift together flour, salt, baking powder and lemon zest together.
• Step 5 5. Slowly add your dry ingredients to your wet ingredients. Mix until just combined.
• Step 6 6. Pack your mixture into your cookie press and press cookies onto your cookie sheet. Don’t grease your cookie sheet or use parchment paper. This will make it very difficult for your pressed cookies to stick and you will lose your patterns.
• Step 7 7. Bake your cookies at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 7-10 minutes, until your cookies are set. You aren’t looking for a golden brown topping like most cookies. These will still be white, but should be completely set when done.
• Step 8 8. Transfer your cookies to a wire cooling rack to cool.
• Step 9 9. Mix your glaze. Add 2-3 tablespoons of lemon juice to your powdered sugar and lemon zest mixture. The glaze should be just thick and not overly runny. If you glaze is too runny add more powdered sugar until the correct consistency is reached.
• Step 10 10. Glaze your cooled cookies. I used a cake decorator for this, so I could add designs to my cookies, but you could just as easily pack the glaze into a ziploc and pour it over your cookies.
• Step 11 11. After glazing my cookies before they set, I sprinkled them with yellow sprinkles. This step is unnecessary, but adds a fun touch to your cookies. Make sure to keep a piece of parchment paper or paper towel under your cookie racks while adding sprinkles so you can collect the excess sprinkles to save for the next use.