Iced Lemonade Wafers

Name: Iced Lemonade Wafers
Ingredients: 2 to 2½ teaspoons strained fresh lemon juice; ⅔ cup sifted confectioners’ (10X) sugar; 1 cup all-purpose flour; ½ cup confectioners’ sugar; 1 tablespoon cornstarch; ¼ teaspoon salt; ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature; 1 tablespoon (lightly packed) finely grated lemon rind (colored outer layer only, no pith); ¼ teaspoon almond extract

Preparation info

Makes about
3 dozen
cookies

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Mrs. Witty's Monster Cookies

By Helen Witty

Published 1983

About

Crisp and cooling, tangy with lemon rind in the cookie and fresh juice in the thin glaze of icing, these are super for summer.

Ingredients

½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 tablespoon (lightly packed) finely grated

Vegetarian
Cookies
Summer

Method

In a mixing bowl (using a wooden spoon) or in the large bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter until it is light. Beat in the lemon rind and almond extract.
Sift together the flour, confectioners’ sugar, cornstarch, and salt. Add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture and combine them thoroughly.
Divide the dough into two equal portions. Roll e