Lemon Slices on Cookies with Lemon Olive Oil Recipe

Lemon Slices on Cookies with Lemon Olive Oil Recipe

Recipe type: Dessert
Number of serving: 8 servings
Preparation time: 4 hours
Cook time: 15 minutes
Ready in: 4 h, 15 m
Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients:

-1 1/2 sticks butter, softened
-2 eggs, divided
-1 tablespoon Sonoma Farm Lemon Olive Oil
-2 cups finely ground almonds or almond flour
-1/2 cup superfine sugar or caster sugar
-1 1/4 cups of all-purpose flour
-4 whole small lemons, with peel, washed, dried, and cut into very thin slices
-powdered sugar for sprinkling

Preparation:

1. Beat butter with one egg.Add almond flour, sugar, all-purpose flour, and lemon olive oil, and mix with the mixer on the lowest setting.
Shape the dough into two logs, about 2 inches each in diameter, and put in the refrigerator for 3 hours.
2. Preheat oven to 350.Slice each log into cookies, about 1/8 inch thick, and place on a lightly greased baking sheet. Beat the second egg and brush the top of each cookie with it.
Place one lemon slice on top of each cookie. Sprinkle with sugar and bake for 12-15 minutes.
If you like the tops of the cookies browned, put them under the broiler the last 5 minutes of baking.
Cool and optionally sprinkle with powdered sugar

Sonoma Farm
May 2013