There are several people in my life who, upon spying a container of these sitting on the table, need their fingers smacked before they devour the entire amount. It’s too easy to pop 12 of these in your mouth. They literally melt on your tongue. The delicate lemon flavor is to die for.
Angel Whispers
Recipe from my mom
3/4 cup plus 2 T all-purpose flour
3/4 cup cornstarch
2 t baking powder
1/2 t cream of tartar
1/8 t salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 heaping T finely chopped lemon zest
1/3 cup powdered sugar
Cream the butter and granulated sugar. Add the eggs and zest and beat well. Place a fine mesh strainer over your bowl. Into the bowl, place the flour, cornstarch, baking powder, cream of tartar and salt. Sift into creamed mixture and then stir it in. Make sure it’s well mixed. Drop by tiny spoonfuls (as in, the dough balls should only be 1/2 inch across) onto parchment lined baking sheets. Leave 1 1/2 inches between dough balls. Bake at 300 degrees for about 8 minutes. You do NOT want them to brown at all. Remove from sheets and cool on a wire rack. Sandwich together with a dab of lemon butter (recipe below) and then roll in powdered sugar. Store in a container between sheets of wax paper. These freeze well.
Lemon Butter
1 beaten egg
2/3 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 T butter
3 T lemon juice
1 heaping T finely chopped lemon zest
Mix all the lemon butter ingredients in the top of a double boiler. Cook over simmering water for about 15 minutes or until thick. Cool and put between the cookies. This actually makes enough lemon butter for 1 1/2 batches of the cookies. I only make one batch of cookies, though, and keep the rest of the lemon butter in a jar in the fridge to eat on toast. Yum.
Yield: about 6 dozen 1 1/4-inch sandwich cookies
I was looking for this recipe and contemplated calling your mom. Thanks!
This recipe actually came out of a church cookbook I picked up on a Thursday-night auction years ago. One of the best finds of my career.
You just know where all the good recipes came from 🙂
Yes, I agree it’s the best find of your career…there are 5 left and I just made these on Thursday. I DID give a few of them away (it makes me feel better to remind myself of that).
just broadening your horizons… 🙂
and I just pulled out my recipe of these to make them and I discover they were contributed by someone named Ruth Rohrer! Do some research, maybe they have come full circle!
Shelah, that is too funny. I’ll have to ask if there’s a Ruth in our family!
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