This Lemon Gooey Butter Cookies is simply a sublime buttery, light and tender-crumbed cookie sweetened just right and full of lemon flavor including an enchanting tang from cream cheese. You just can’t have one!
Ingredients
2¼ cups (270 g) unbleached all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons (8 g) baking powder
1 (8 oz or 226 g) package cream cheese, softened
½ cup (1 stick or 113 g) unsalted butter, softened
1½ cups (300 g) granulated sugar
2 tablespoons (12 g) freshly grated lemon zest, from 2 large lemons
1½ tablespoons (22.5 ml) freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 teaspoon (5 ml) pure vanilla extract
⅛ teaspoon (a few drops) lemon oil
⅛ teaspoon natural yellow gel based food coloring
1 teaspoon (4.8 g) fine-grain sea salt, or ¾ teaspoon (4.5 g) regular table salt
1 large egg plus 1 large egg yolk (mine weighed 71 g w/o shells)
1 cup (120 g) confectioners’ sugar, sifted, for rolling & dusting cookies
Instructions
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