Lemon Sunflower Spritz Cookies
Yellow-tinted lemon spritz cookies decorated with chocolate jimmies to look like little sunflowers.
🍳 Cook: 10 min🍽️ Makes 72
Ingredients
| 3/4 cup | 180 ml | unsalted butter (1 1/2 sticks), room temperature |
| 1/2 cup | 120 ml | sugar |
| 1/4 tsp | 1.3 ml | salt |
| 1 | large egg | |
| 2 tbsp | 30 ml | lemon curd |
| 1 tsp | 5 ml | vanilla extract |
| 2 cups | 480 ml | all-purpose flour |
| — | yellow food coloring and chocolate jimmies for decorating |
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter, sugar and salt until light and fluffy.
- Add egg, lemon curd and vanilla extract, beating until smooth.
- Gradually add flour, beating until fully incorporated. Add a few drops of yellow food coloring at a time until desired color is reached.
- Put through cookie press onto cookie sheets and decorate with jimmies prior to baking.
- Bake at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 8-10 minutes until edges are lightly browned.