Italian Lemon Cookies

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 80
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 62.4
  • Total Fat: 2.7 g
  • Cholesterol: 9.8 mg
  • Sodium: 48.1 mg
  • Total Carbs: 8.9 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 0.1 g
  • Protein: 0.6 g

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Introduction

Serves about 80
1 cookie = 1 WW point Serves about 80
1 cookie = 1 WW point
Number of Servings: 80

Ingredients

    Ingredients:

    ¾ cup Crisco
    ¾ cup sugar
    3 eggs
    pinch of salt
    1 tsp. Lemon extract
    1 tsp. Vanilla extract
    ¼ cup milk, room temperature
    2 cups flour
    1 Tbsp. Plus 1 tsp. Baking powder

    Butter Cream Vanilla Frosting

    ¼ c. butter or margarine
    ½ tsp. Salt
    2 tsp. Lemon Extract
    3 c. confectioner’s sugar
    ¼ c. half and half

Directions

Beat together Crisco and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Add remaining ingredients, until well mixed. Cover and put in Freezer about ½ hour. Dip hands in flour when working with dough, tends to be sticky. Make small balls. Put on ungreased cookie sheets. Be sure to space them well. They tend to spread. Bake 375 for 10 minutes. Yields about 6 3/4 dozen cookies

Frosting instructions.
Combine butter or margarine, salt, vanilla, and 1 cup sugar. Add milk and remaining sugar alternately; mix until smooth and creamy. Add more sugar to thicken or milk to thin if needed for good spreading consistency.

Also you may tint frosting with food color. Pink, yellow, green, great for Easter, wedding showers etc.

Spread frosting on top of cookies while they are still warm.

Number of Servings: 80

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user SLPETERS2682.