Saturday, September 17, 2011

Lemon Drop Cookies

Serving size 48
2 cups of sugar
1 cup butter-flavored Crisco
½ cup of butter
3 eggs- add one at a time

4 cups of flour
1 ½ tsp. baking powder
1 ½ tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt

3 tsp. lemon juice
Zest of one lemon
6 ounces crushed lemon heads- put lemon heads in plastic bag and hit with a hammer

Glaze
1 cup of powdered sugar
Juice of one lemon

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Cream sugar, shortening, butter, and eggs. Add lemon juice.
Mix dry ingredients lemon zest, and crushed lemon heads.
Fold dry ingredients into creamed mixture.
Roll into balls, and bake on parchment lined cookie sheet for 10-12 minutes. They will collapse after you take them out of the oven. Do not over bake.
Let them sit on pan 10-12 minutes, then brush lightly with glaze and cool completely.
This is a soft cookie, it keeps well.

(Got this recipe from a co-worker...haven't made them myself, but the ones she made were sooo good...if you like lemon, citrisy type desserts.)

CHOCOLATE CHIP ZUCCHINI BREAD

3 c. flour
1/2 c. white sugar
1 c. brown sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
3 eggs
2 c. grated zucchini, unpared
3/4 c. oil
3 tsp. vanilla
1/2 c. chopped walnuts
6 oz. chocolate chips

Mix all dry ingredients together; then mix eggs, oil, vanilla and zucchini in a large bowl. Add dry ingredients to wet mixture and mix well. Add nuts and chocolate chips.

Grease pans. This batter can be poured into 2 loaf pans or 4 to 5 mini loaf pans, or into muffin pans (about 24). Bake at 350 degrees. Large loaves take about 50 to 60 minutes; mini-loaves about 30 minutes; and muffins about 15 to 20 minutes.

(I usually leave out the nuts...great as muffins or bread!)