Lemon Tea Cookies are light, sweet and delicious. Try making them today! Different from your everyday cookie, you’ll love the pop of citrus!

Lemon Tea Cookies?  No not Lemon AND tea cookies (yuck).  Lemon cookies meant to serve at tea time – how fun is that?  These were the perfect cookies for a tea party (or in my case a coffee party!)  They were light and fluffy, but full of flavor at the same time. (I found the recipe in an old church cook book – I love those things!)

A quick note – when cooking these – the batter itself is not where all the flavor is coming from.  The flavor comes from the glaze.  The first dozen I took out of the oven did not have a ton of flavor – so I quickly started glazing my cookies twice.  I did it in order – glaze cookie 1 then on to 2…then I did it again in order – it seemed to let the glaze really sink in.

Enjoy these yummy little goodies!

Yield: 2 1/2 to 3 dozen cookies

Lemon Tea Cookies

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Ingredients

• 2 tsp lemon juice
• 1/2 C milk
• 1 3/4 C flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 C butter softened
• 3/4 C sugar
• 1 egg

For the Glaze

• 3/4 C sugar
• 1/4 C lemon juice

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Stir 2 tsp lemon juice into milk and set aside
3. Stir together flour, baking powder, and soda and set aside
4. Beat butter for 30 seconds then add sugar and beat until fluffy
5. Add egg and beat again
6. Alternate adding dry ingredients and milk beating after each entry
7. Spoon on to ungreased cookie sheet leaving 2 inches in between cookies
8. Bake for 12-14 minutes
9. Remove at once to a wire rack and brush with glaze (twice) immediately

For the glaze

1. Stir Lemon juice into sugar slowly until combined (stir again before each glazing)