A New Favorite - Cookie Monday

I wanted to take a short minute today (really short, I promise) to talk about one of my favorite new cookie recipes. They are called lemon crinkle cookies (recipe on Kitchen Meets Girl) and they are DELICIOUS. These cookies melt in your mouth and are the perfect amount of sweet and tart to satisfy any sweet tooth.

And the best part? They are fool proof! Really I mean it. If you can stir together ingredients, spoon balls of dough, and roll them in powdered sugar, these are the cookies for you! Here is a picture to get you excited about making them!

(Picture and Recipe here)

I will offer just two simple tips to make your cookie baking process easier. 

First, make them small. I mean, like actually small. They will look so strange on the cookie sheet, but here is my logic behind this suggestion. By making them smaller it is easier to ensure that they are cooked fully, and they are MUCH easier to eat. The first time I made these cookies I made them big. Like tablespoon sized dough balls, and while they were still amazing, you also looked like you had just been hit with a snowball from all the powdered sugar. Making them smaller allows you to just pop the whole cookie in your mouth with very little mess.

Second, make sure they cook fully. The recipe says to bake them for 8-10 minutes. Really push it to the 10 minute side (maybe even a minute or two longer). When they are not baked enough they are still yummy, but they are very difficult to get off of the cookie sheet (even when you use a silicon mat) and if you are serving them to guests, there is an egg in the batter, and that's just not a risk we should be willing to take.

I hope you enjoy this cookie Monday recipe and tips as much as I do (and more so my husband and everyone at his office - these are their favorite). If you try this recipe let me know how it works out for you!

Until next time,

~C