I saw this recipe when I was perusing the different craft/food blogs that I have bookmarked. I thought they sounded good, and it gave me another recipe to use with the plentiful zucchini I have sitting on my counter. I looked at the recipe & it looked alot like my Mom's recipe for her yummy soft chocolate chip cookies. Friday, I tested my theory & made my Mom's dough, but instead of adding the chocolate, I added zucchini, lemon & walnuts to the mix. They turned out spectacular. Moist & soft just like my Mom's. They tasted even better with a lemon glaze on top. I took these cookies to my husbands work & they gobbled them up. They couldn't believe that there was zucchini in them. I made up another batch on Saturday, this time w/out nuts (so my sister could try) & more lemon zest, more zucchini & lemon juice. Michelle (my sis) said that they were delish & she took a bunch home to share.
-One speck of zucchini-
-A cookie with nuts in it. You can also see specks of lemon & zucchini.-
Lemon Zucchini Cookies
- 1 Cup Butter Margerine (soft)
- 1 Cup White Sugar
- 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
- Cream these ingredients together. To the creamed ingredients add:
- 2 Eggs
- The zest of 3 Lemons
- 1-1 1/2 Cups of shredded Zucchini
- 2 T of Lemon Juice
- Mix these ingredients together, so everything's incorporated. To the mix add:
- 1/4 t Salt
- 1 t Baking Soda
- 2 1/2-3 Cups of Flour
- 1 Cup of chopped Walnuts (optional)
- Mix everything together. You want to add enough flour to make a semi stiff dough. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake cookies for 12- 14 minutes or until they're golden yellow. Let them cool for a couple of minutes before you put them on a wire rack. After they cool for a while coat them in a lemon glaze. I basically took a bowl big enough to dunk the cookies, and too that added 1/4 cup of powdered sugar & 2 T of Lemon juice (from the lemons I zested), mixed it together & then dunked the cookies. I kept doing this until all the cookies were coated. If you have restraint you can let the glaze on the cookies harden & then eat, or you can just eat them then.
Enjoy!
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