Sugar Cookies

This is a yummy and quick cookie recipe...the ones I'm serving in my lunches for the past couple of weeks. I have to hide them from "you know who" or we wouldn't have any left for the lunches!

I love a cookie recipe that you can mix up and keep the dough in the refrig for 2 or 3 days and just cook as you need them. My kids always loved making cookies at night after supper or in the afternoon when they got home from school and somehow...cookies just out of the oven are the best...!

SUGAR COOKIES

Zest from 1 large lemon
2 Tablespoons lemon juice
1 ½ cup sugar
½ cup brown sugar
2 sticks butter (1 cup)
2 eggs
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon salt

In blender add sugars with lemon zest and mix for about 1 minute. Add butter and mix until light and fluffy about 3 minutes. Add eggs and mix well. Mix together all dry ingredients and add to batter. Mix just until all flour mixture is incorporated.

Use a Silpat baking mat or parchment paper or spray your baking sheet with baking spray. Using a small ice cream scoop or soup spoon dip out dough and place on baking sheet. Leave plenty of room for cookies to spread out. Sprinkle tops of cookie with generous amount of sugar. Bake at 350° for approximately 10 minutes or until slightly browned around edges. Cool on wire racks.

Hope you like them....

Leah