* Serves 4

What do I need?

For the cookies:

• 1 lemon
• 120 g butter, softened
• 75 g golden caster sugar
• 180 g self-raising flour

For the icing:

• 3 tbsp icing sugar
• 1 tbsp lemon juice

How do I make them?

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C/350°F/gas mark 5.
2. Finely grate the peel or zest from the lemon.
3. Using either a hand-held blender or wooden spoon, beat together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Add the zest and flour and mix together with a spoon. You may need to use your hands for mixing.
4. Take a teaspoon of the mix and roll into a small ball. Pop onto a baking tray, then squash slightly with a fork to flatten. Repeat to make around 22 cookies. Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes or until golden.
5. Leave the cookies to cool on the tray for 10 minutes, then transfer onto a cooling rack. Mix together the icing sugar and lemon juice and drizzle over the cookies in thin zigzag lines.
6. Allow to cool, then pack in an airtight container.

Tasty tip

To make chocolate chip cookies, add a handful of chocolate chips instead of the lemon juice and zest. 

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