Frosted Lemon Snowballs

Submitted by spatchcock

"Yummy little lemony cookies. Perfect for the holidays. Posted on the Fine Cooking forums. Yield is approximate (I didn't count when I made these)"

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Yields: 24 cookies

ingredients

• Lemon Cookies

• 1 cup butter
• 1⁄2 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 1⁄2 cups flour
• 3⁄4 cup cornstarch
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon grated lemon zest

• lemon frosting

• 1 cup confectioners' sugar
• 2 tablespoons melted butter
• lemon juice

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Cream butter with sugar.
3. Sift flour with cornstarch and salt.
4. Stir in lemon rind.
5. Stir flour into butter until just combined.
6. Shape into 1 inch balls and bake on greased cookie sheets for 15 minutes, or until very lightly browned.
7. When cookies are cool, drizzle with lemon frosting and sprinkle with white decorators sugar.
8. Lemon frosting: Beat all ingredients together until smooth (start with 1 T. lemon juice).
9. Add lemon juice until frosting is thin enough to glaze the cookies.