Sugar Cookies

These cookies have a lovely lemon flavour. They will keep for weeks in an air tight box. The recipe will make about 60 cookies depending on their size.

Ingredients:

• 6oz butter
• 10 oz caster sugar (I use vanilla sugar)
• 1 egg
• 1 egg yolk
• 1/4 tsp salt
• Rind of 1 lemon
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 10 oz plain flour

Method:

1. Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
2. Use a wooden spoon to stir in the egg and the egg yolk.
3. Add the salt, lemon rind and vanilla essence and combine.
4. Stir in the flour.
5. Wrap the dough in some greaseproof paper and refrigerate for at least 30 mins. This will make it much easier to roll out. You can make the dough in advance and just leave it in the fridge until you're ready to use it.
6. Preheat the oven to 180C.
7. Roll out the dough to 2 - 3 mm thick.
8. Cut out shapes using cookie cutters.
9. Transfer the cookies to a baking sheet.
10. Bake for about 8 mins until golden brown.
11. Allow to cool on a wire rack.