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 cup sugar
1 egg
8 oz whole milk ricotta cheese
1/4 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 cup lemon juice (about 1 large lemon's worth)
zest of ane lemon

Directions:

for the cookies:

Preheat oven to 350. Line 2 baking sheets amongst parchment newspaper or a silicone baking mat.


In a medium-sized bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, in addition to salt. Set aside.

Place the saccharide in addition to butter inward the bowl of a stand upward mixer or a large bowl, operate an electrical mixer amongst the paddle attachment in addition to mix the butter in addition to saccharide until fluffy. Add the egg,  ricotta cheese, lemon juice, in addition to lemon zest. Mix to combine. Stir inward the dry 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 close 1 inch apart. Bake for 12-15 minutes, until they are but offset to chocolate-brown at the edges. Remove from the oven. Carefully take away to a wire rack in addition to cool 20-30 minutes.

for the glaze:

Place the wire rack (with the cookies yet on it!) over a cookie canvas to grab drips.

Whisk together the glaze ingredients until polish glaze forms. Spoon 1 teaspoon glaze over each cookie, spreading to coat if desired.  Let the glaze fix at to the lowest degree 1-2 hours earlier packing into storage containers.

Yield: close 2 dozen cookies, tin hold out easily doubled

My thoughts:

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The side yesteryear side twenty-four hours I went on my commons trip to Aldi (plug for my Aldi fan spider web log here) in addition to picked upward some lemons in addition to ricotta then I could recreate the cookies on my own. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 niggling experimenting in addition to I came upward amongst this recipe. The cookies are a niggling fleck bigger than the ones I had at GDL Italian thank yous to the size of the cookie scoop I used. It is a fluffy, variety of cake-like batter then I felt similar a cookie scoop was needed vs but using a spoon. If yous wishing smaller cookies operate a smaller cookie scoop or endeavour using a spoon. It actually is upward to you! The play tricks to getting the perfect lemon-ricotta season is using amount fatty ricotta in addition to a lot of lemon zest in addition to juice. Citrus has a style to "bake out" of baked goods--this is why extracts are used inward a lot of recipes--but the zest retains the season a lot meliorate then don't hold out tempted to skip it fifty-fifty though it way using actual lemons in addition to non but bottled juice. I developed the recipe then yous should exclusively demand (and use) 2 amount lemons, I know citrus tin hold out pricey this fourth dimension of yr in addition to I abhor waste.

If lemon-y, slightly tart, tangy cookies amongst 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 induce got made a ton of cookies in addition to basically computer program vacations around bakeries then this actually way something.