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Lemon Bar Cookies Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
4 1/4 cups all purpose
1/3 cup Instant Lemon Pudding Mix (powder)
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 pound cream cheese
2 sticks unsalted butter
3 cups sugar
3 tablespoons lemon zest
2 eggs
1 teaspoon lemon extract
1/4 cup lemon juice
Confectioner’s sugar (powdered sugar) for rolling and dusting
Directions:
Directions:
In a bowl combine flour, lemon pudding mix, baking powder and salt. Mix together with a whisk.Using your electric mixer or beaters, beat together cream cheese, butter, sugar, extract and zest.Add eggs one at a time to butter mixture.Mix in lemon juice.Slowly add flour mixture to wet mixture, beating on slow until just combined.Cover and refrigerate dough for at least one hour.Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.Scoop out 1 in rounds and roll in a bowl of confectioner's sugar *note dough will be stickyPlace on cookie sheet leaving 2 inches between each cookie dough ball.Bake for 12-14 minutes or until edge a just barley browned.Cool on cookie sheet for 10 minutes then cool completely on cooling rack.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
4 dozen

 

 

 

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