Lemon Crinkle Cookies

Lemon Crinkle Cookies

from Lauren's Latest https://laurenslatest.com/lemon-crinkle-cookies/ 

• ½ cups Butter, Softened
• 1 cup Granulated Sugar
• ½ teaspoons Vanilla Extract
• 1 whole Egg
• 1 teaspoon Lemon Zest
• 1 Tablespoon Fresh Lemon Juice
• ¼ teaspoons Salt
• ¼ teaspoons Baking Powder
• ⅛ teaspoons Baking Soda
• 1-½ cup All-purpose Flour
• ½ cups Powdered Sugar

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease light colored baking sheets with non stick cooking spray and set aside.
2. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Whip in vanilla, egg, lemon zest and juice. Scrape sides and mix again. Stir in all dry ingredients slowly until just combined, excluding the powdered sugar. Scrape sides of bowl and mix again briefly. Pour powdered sugar onto a large plate. Roll a heaping teaspoon of dough into a ball and roll in powdered sugar. Place on baking sheet and repeat with remaining dough.
3. Bake for 9-11 minutes or until bottoms begin to barely brown and cookies look matte {not melty or shiny}. Remove from oven and cool cookies about 3 minutes before transferring to cooling rack.
4. *If using a non stick darker baking tray, reduce baking time by about 2 minutes.

Lemon Bundt Cake

Lemon Bundt Cake
from https://www.culinaryhill.com/lemon-bundt-cake/

Cake:
1 pkg lemon cake mix
1 (3.4 oz) package instant lemon pudding
2/3 c water
1/2 c vegetable oil
1/3 c fresh lemon juice
4 large eggs
1 t lemon zest

Glaze
3/4 c powdered sugar
1 T milk
1/2 t vanilla (I always go heavy on vanilla)
1-2 T lemon juice

Preheat oven to 350.  Generously coat large Bundt pan with Baker's Joy spray.
In a large bowl, whisk together cake mix and dry pudding.  Add water, oil, lemon juice, eggs, lemon zest; stir to combine.  Pour into prepared pan and bake for 40 minutes.  Cool 15 mins in pan.  Invert onto cooling rack and cool completely.
For glaze, whisk together powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla.  Add lemon juice until the glaze is thin enough to pour.  Drizzle over cooled cake and let glaze harden for at least 10 minutes.


** Every year when the lemons come off the trees at Grammers' house, we juice a bunch and freeze the juice in cubes to use all year.  But also while there's fresh lemon juice in the house, we make all the lemon recipes.  We made this delicious treat for Grandma Day on Great-Grandma's birthday a few times because chocolate isn't her favorite, but citrus is.  This is a springtime classic.