mmm, cookies.

I'm a chocolate girl--through and through. My favorite desserts almost always involve lots and lots of dark, bitter chocolate. But when a Friday afternoon blog favorite featured lemon sugar cookies, my mouth watered. Apparently, so did my co-workers--within minutes, an email circulated that said "if anyone wants to do any baking....these look delicious." 

Two batches later, I'm pretty sure this recipe is a keeper.  After just eight minutes, the cookies come out of the oven perfectly soft in the middle and crunchy on the outside.  They hold up quite well too. I think they could have used a little more lemon flavor, but I might be the only one.  Just so you know, they're delicately-flavored-with-lemon sugar cookies.  That's for all you lemon haters out there. Best of all, they're fast.  And homemade, which means you get to eat all the dough you want. 

I did try to use the homemade stamp, but they spread--a lot! 

Recipe here

Note: I zested two lemons for the first batch, and for the second, I zested two lemons and a lime, plus added all of the juice from one of the lemons. (See, I told you I wanted more of a lemon taste.) Sadly, they tasted about the same.