Coooooooookies!

This week it is definitely time for something sweet around here at Free Recipe Friday.  Cookies are a  delicious and great place to start wouldn't you say?!?  And LEMON CRINKLES at that.  Honey hush.  Cookies are just the best - I mean, unless you are making chocolate chip ones, you pretty much always have the ingredients to throw together some kind of cookies - at least I hope you do.  The staples of cookie life...butter, sugar, flour, salt, eggs...if you have those, you can pretty much rule the world!  Even though this week's recipe is my second favorite 'crinkle' variety (chocolate ones are the BOMB and my sister makes the best chocolate crinkles...maybe another post?!) they are amazing...so that's what we are cooking up.  I recently stumbled upon them and wanted to give them a try. 

WHAT YOU NEED:
½ cup butter, softened (1 stick)

1 cup granulated sugar

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

1 egg

1 teaspoon lemon zest

1 Tablespoon fresh lemon juice

¼ teaspoons salt

¼ teaspoon baking powder

⅛ teaspoon baking soda

1-½ cup all-purpose flour

½-1 cup powdered sugar

WHAT TO DO:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease baking sheets with non-stick spray and set aside.

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar together
until light and fluffy.
Mix in vanilla, egg, lemon zest, and juice.
Scrape down the sides and mix again.
Stir in all dry ingredients slowly until just combined,
excluding the powdered sugar.
Scrape sides of bowl and mix again briefly.
Pour powdered sugar onto a large plate.
Roll a heaping teaspoon of dough into a ball
and roll in powdered sugar.
Place on baking sheet and repeat with remaining dough.

Bake for 9-11 minutes or until bottoms begin
to barely brown and cookies look matte {not melty or shiny}.
Remove baking sheet from the oven
and cool the cookies on the baking sheet
for about 3 minutes
before transferring to cooling rack.

These are so yummy and addicting!
ENJOY!