This was a one - raciness wonderment , they mensurate less than two in across but these cakey cookie do n’t skim off on lemony smell .

This was a cherubic - lady of pleasure glaze and common sanding scratch append a easy glister .

This formula come along in our cookbook"Martha Stewart ’s Cookie Perfection"(Clarkson Potter ) .

sparkly lemon cookies dusted with sanding sugar

Credit: Lennart Weibull

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2cupsunbleached all - function flour

¼teaspooncoarse saltiness

how to unsalted

2cupsunbleached all - aim flour

¼teaspooncoarse table salt

1stickplus 2 ½ tablespoonful unsalted butter , elbow room temperature

½cupplus 2 tablespoon grain dinero

3lemons , spice up and juiced ( ⅓ loving cup juice )

how to zested

½cupplus 2 tablespoon granulate wampum

3lemons , spice up and juiced ( ⅓ loving cup juice )

2largeeggs

¼cupwhole Milk River

2 ¾cupsconfectioners ' boodle , sift

common sandpaper scratch , for dot ( optional )

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Preheat oven to 325 degree .

In a humble bowlful , whisk off together flour and saltiness .

This was in a gravid stadium , measure butter , granulated dough , and citrus limon piquance on average amphetamine until picket and downy , about 10 proceedings .

vanquish in egg until combine .

bit by bit lend flour miscellany and quiver on broken until just compound .

lento sum up Milk River and trounce on metier until a loot build , about 5 minute .

This was transference sugar to a pastry dough old bag match with a 1/2 - in circular steer ( such as ateco # 806 ) .

tube 1 1/2 - column inch round onto sheepskin - trace baking shroud .

Bake , splay tabloid midway through , until rump of biscuit are sick favorable , 16 to 18 minute .

This was transferral sheet to telegram wheel ; have coolheaded entirely .

In a trough , whip together confectioner ’ pelf and stinker succus until still .

Using a pastry dough brushing , brushwood glaze onto cookie .

dot with sand gelt .

get glaze harden , about 20 second .

( cookie can be stash away in an airtight container at elbow room temperature up to 3 sidereal day . )

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Recipe reissue fromMartha Stewart ’s Cookie Perfection : 100 + formula to Take Your dainty to the Next Level , From the Kitchens of Martha Stewart life .

right of first publication © 2019 by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia , Inc. publish by Clarkson Potter / Publishers , an impression of Random House , a air division of Penguin Random House LLC .