Regular readers will know that The Hungry Dad recently raided his mum’s lemon tree for my baking pleasure. Our lemon bowl is still plentiful but another recent visit to mum-in-law’s house resulted in yet more lemons coming home with us.
I can’t believe we haven’t made lemonade, as per Beyonce’s behest, considering Miss8 and 10 have long talked about wanting to make lemonade.
I have made lemon donuts: https://thehungrymum.com/2016/07/04/lemon-baked-doughnut-recipe/ 
Lemon delicious pudding https://thehungrymum.com/2016/06/22/lemon-delicious-pudding/ 
Lemon poppyseed cupcakes https://thehungrymum.com/2016/06/10/lemon-poppyseed-cupcakes-with-lemon-curd/ 
And more – and my ‘to bake’ list is still incredibly long. I love baking with, and eating, lemon-scented cakes, bars and cookies.
In Australia we call cookies, biscuits or to use the vernacular – bickies. Lemon bickies make a lovely change from chocolate or vanilla and I have noticed that most people absolutely adore citrus baked goods and love the zestiness they provide.
This is an easy recipe for butter lemon cookies that I cut using a heart-shaped cookie cutter. I used an icing pen to decorate mine but they are lovely with no adornment. The aroma as these beauties bake is heavenly.
You will need a food processor for this recipe.
GATHER:
325g plain flour
200g cold butter, diced
125g caster sugar
Zest of two large lemons
2 egg yolks
LET’S GET TO IT:
Preheat oven to 170C and line two baking sheets with baking paper.
In a food processor whizz together flour and butter until it resembles breadcrumbs, then add the sugar, lemon zest and egg yolk and process to a dough.
Roll the dough between baking paper until 5mm thick and cut out biscuits with a heart-shaped cutter.
Cook for 12ish minutes – depending on the size of the cutter – and cool on wire rack.
the hungry mum 
Oooh yum!!! These look great! I love anything lemon flavoured!
Love the finish look. It certainly stands out among all butter cookies.
Delish !!
Thanks 🙂
These do seem easy enough to bake. Not much for me to foul up but I’m sure I’ll find a way. Still, I’m one of those who love citrus-y baked goods, so, it’s at least worth a try. 🙂
No, they are un-foul-up-able 🙂 You’re a much more talented cook than I am, this would be a walk in the park for you.
That sounds like a challenge and, not so coincidentally, I think my oven just groaned. 😀
Love that you have a lemon tree hungry mum – the zest from Unwaxed lemons is such a treat!
What a bountiful lemon tree your MIL has! I do hope you are sharing all these lemony baked goodies with her?