1 - lemon sugar cookies

The good thing about making cookies is that it always makes your home smell like family reunions and laughter - so I usually bake them when I am feeling nostalgic and a little blue

ingredients

2 3/4 cups all purpose flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp baking powder

1 cup butter, soft

1 egg

2 tsp vanilla exctract

zest of 1 lemon

what I did 

*preheat oven to 375F - 190C

*either butter 2 cookie sheets or use wax paper

*mixed all the dry ingredients together in any type of container

*the butter has to be soft! it is the key, since my butter had been in the fridge, I took it out and chopped it into small pieces and put it in the microwave until it was soft (do not melt!)

*cream butter and sugar together until smooth

*add the egg, vanilla and zest to your sugar mix

*I gradually mixed the dry ingredients with the soft ingredients...

*once everything was well blended, with my hands I made little balls of dough and placed them in a cookie sheet (about 15 balls per sheet)

*cook for 8 minutes!!!! the second batch I cooked for 11 and they turned out to be a little too hard, the ones that I baked for 8 minutes are still soft one day later.

enjoy!!!