Grab a few ingredients and mix up these melt in your mouth buttery lemon cookies.  By a few I mean ONLY FOUR ingredients – lemon juice and zest count as one item, right?!  These take just a few minutes and taste like you spent hours making a gourmet bakery cookie.

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What you need:  

• 1 c. butter (2 sticks) – room temperature
• 2 1/2 c. powdered sugar
• 3 Tbsp. finely grated lemon zest
• 2 Tbsp. lemon juice
• 2 c. flour

Make it:

Cookies:

• Preheat oven to 400°
• In a large bowl, add butter, 1/2 c. powdered sugar and lemon zest.  Cream together with a hand mixer
• Add flour and mix until a soft dough forms.  This will be a slightly dry, crumbly dough.
• Roll into 36 balls and place onto an ungreased cookie sheet
• Flatten to about 1 1/2″ cookies.  Do not worry about spacing.  The cookies do not flatten or spread when baking
• Bake for 8-10 minutes until JUST set and barely brown on edges.  Bottoms should remain pale
• Remove from oven and rest on pan for 2 minutes.
• Immediately remove from pan and place in a bowl with 1 c. powdered sugar.  Gently toss to coat and put onto a cooling rack.  Do 3 or 4 cookies at a time to avoid breaking them.

Icing:

• Mix remaining 1 c. powdered sugar and 2 Tbsp. lemon juice to make a glaze.  Add more lemon juice if needed to make a pourable glaze.
• Drizzle over cooled cookies creating a zig zag pattern to decorate.  Allow to set.