Lemon Kisses

I do believe I have found THE perfect lemon cookie.   I love lemon anything . . .  and these cookies are just the absolute epitome of what are some beautiful lemon flavours!  Crisp, buttery and full on lemony!  Wowsa wowsa!   Pucker up because these cookies are going to slap you with a lovely lemon kiss!

They are so simple to make  and bake as well.  I adapted the recipe from a little BBC Good Food Book, entitled Easy Baking Recipes.  I love those little BBC books, they are chock full of great recipes.

It is simple butter dough . . .  flavoured with lemon and vanilla . . . tender and flakey . . .  not quite shortbread like, but close . . .

The lemon flavour is very subtle, but not too subtle.  It’s definitely there.

Additional lemon flavour comes from the lemon curd which you use to sandwich these lovely biscuits together with.  Use a good quality curd . . .  one which is thick and puckeringly lemony  flavoured.  It is worth it to pay a bit more.  These lovely biscuits deserve more than the cheap stuff.  You won’t be sorry.

 Yet another layer of lemon flavour comes in the sweet lemon icing which is drizzled over top of the sandwiched biscuits . . .  but that’s not all . . .

 A finishing sprinkle of freshly grated lemon zest seals the deal and completes three layers of delightful lemon tastiness.

Simply put  . . .  these are gorgeous.

Whisk the icing sugar together with enough of the lemon juice from one of the lemons to give you a thick drizzle icing.   Drizzle this over top of the sandwiched biscuits and sprinkle with the lemon zest of the second lemon.  Leave to set before serving.  Store any leftovers in the refrigerator.  Bring to room temperature before serving.

As I was rolling these out, I thought to myself, wouldn’t these be lovely cut out with my bunny cutters, filled, glazed and then decorated with some white candy puff tails, and pink eyes . . .  and so I cut out roughly half the dough as bunnies.  Never thinking for a minute that if I wanted to sandwich them together I would have to reverse cut half of them . . .  DUH.  Nevermind.  They were still cute and pretty tasty as a single layer cookie, glazed with the lemon icing and decorated simply as it were.

Bon Appetit!

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