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Lemon Shortbread Stars

Delicious Lemon Shortbread Stars with a Lemon Glaze!
Course Snack

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups Plain Flour
  • 2 tbsp Rice Flour
  • 200 g Unsalted ButterĀ 
  • 1/3 cup Icing Sugar
  • 1 tsp Finely Grated Lemon Rind
  • 2 tbsp Lemon Juice

Lemon Glaze

  • 1 cup Icing Sugar
  • 2 tbsp Lemon Juice
  • Yellow Food Coloring
  • Silver Cachous
  • toothpick

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 180C
  • Mix flour, butter and sugar in food processor until mixture is crumbly
  • Add lemon rind and juice. Mix until it forms a dough.
  • Turn out dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth.
  • Roll out dough and cut out star with cookie cutter
  • Bake for 10 min or until very light brown
  • Cool on wire rack

Lemon Glaze

  • Combine Icing sugar and lemon. Stir till smooth.
  • Dip biscuits face down in glaze.
  • Dip toothpick in yellow food coloring, and draw lines into icing from the center of the star out, before it sets.
  • Place a silver cachou in the middle!
Keyword Christmas, Lemon, Shortbread