This week in Twelve Weeks of Christmas Cookies I am presenting a gorgeous tangy lemon cookie! As good as these are on a plate they would be wonderful tied to the tree with festive ribbon! These can be a little tricky to twist at first and shape into a wreath but a little patience and refrigeration of the dough certainly helps! I hope you enjoy these elegant cookies!
Lemon-glazed Christmas Wreath Cookies
(adapted from Australian Women Weekly COOK)
Makes 40
450g self raising flour
125g butter, chopped coarsely
60ml milk
110g caster sugar
1 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 eggs
2 teaspoons grated lemon rind
Lemon Icing
480g icing sugar (powdered sugar)
lemon juice
Preheat oven to 180C. Line trays with baking paper.
Combine sugar and milk in small saucepan. Stir over low heat until the sugar dissolves.Add extract and cool for 5 minutes.
While you are waiting sift the flour and rub in the butter. I did this in the food processor. Stir in the warm milk mixture and the egg into the flour mixture.
Knead lightly until smooth.
Refrigerate for 20 minutes.
Roll small teaspoons of dough into 13 cm sausages. Twist two sausages together, form into circles press edges together. Place 3 cm apart on oven trays. Bake 15 minutes. Cool on wire rack.
Meanwhile make the lemon icing. Sift the sugar into small heatproof bowl, stir in enough juice to make a firm paste. Stir over small saucepan of simmering water until pourable. Add more lemon juice if required.
Dip the tops of the cookies into the icing; set at room temperature.
Check out my fellow Christmas Cookie Bakers!
Week 5 Twelve Weeks of Christmas:
Claudia
15/11/2010 at 2:37 amI thought I'd met every Christmas cookie ever made. Not true! (Lasy year I did 24 days of Italian Christmas cookies – the family collectively gained ten pounds – I think the cat and dog gained a few ounces also.) These are new to me, so sweet with a little tang and I shall be making them.
Mary
03/11/2010 at 12:30 amVery pretty cookies! I would love to have one with you, and a cup of tea. I spent Christmas a few years ago in Kuranda, Cairns and Townsville. We also visited Dimbulah, where my friend is from. Not sure if that's exactly your neck of the woods, but I'd love to come back again some day.
p.s. I think churros are made with pate a choux. mmm
shaz
31/10/2010 at 10:39 amVery beautiful Marcellina, this is another one I'd like to make. Lemon is such a great flavour for our Christmas season 🙂
♥Sugar♥Plum♥Fairy♥
31/10/2010 at 7:42 amOh ur cookies are oh so pretty!!
Barbara Bakes
31/10/2010 at 12:22 amI love a delicious lemon cookie and these are beautiful as well.
Susan: My Food Obsession
30/10/2010 at 9:51 amWOW! These look Amazing!
crustabakes
30/10/2010 at 4:17 amWow,that must have taken a whole lotta patience to shape each of those cookies and glaze them. Great job though.They look delish, not to mention pretty too!
Megan
30/10/2010 at 3:50 amWe love lemon cookies, and the shape is so festive – especially if they are tied to the tree.
Sue
30/10/2010 at 1:59 amThis is a beautiful, Christmasy cookie!
Avril
29/10/2010 at 10:16 pmI just love this beautiful cookies!!! And the idea of making the cookies into a wreath is precious!
Happy Weekend!
~avril 🙂
Louanne
29/10/2010 at 8:25 pmThese look and sound delicious, as well as being so pretty and dainty.
Tracy
29/10/2010 at 5:00 pmSo pretty and I think they would be lovely hanging from the tree. 🙂
Megan
29/10/2010 at 3:24 pmI love this little cookie and i agree, how cute it would be on the tree. I also love the refreshing flavor of lemon in the winter!
Steph
29/10/2010 at 3:07 pmWow! These cookies look fabulous!!
Manu
29/10/2010 at 1:49 pmI love the idea of tying them to the tree with festive ribbon!
So beautiful!
Dajana
29/10/2010 at 12:46 pmThey're absolutely adorable and perfect Christmas cookies, if you add a few pieces of chopped candied fruit on top of the icing they'll really look like little Christmas wreaths
April
29/10/2010 at 12:38 pmThey are gorgeous!
Pam
29/10/2010 at 12:30 pmWhat a great cookie – simple in ingredients and so elegant looking!
Bethie
29/10/2010 at 11:21 amWhat a perfect Christmas cookie! Those look so tasty.
Lisa
29/10/2010 at 4:38 amWhat beautiful little cookies with the perfect Christmas shape.
Trisha
29/10/2010 at 4:23 amThese are so pretty. It'll be fun to dress them up with a little royal icing as well!!!