Lemon Cookies – Citronové cukroví

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Ingredients:

TIMING
Prep: 20 minutes
Rest: 1 hour
Hands On & Bake: 40 minutes
Bake: 350 °F (180 °C) 7 – 8 minutes
Jam and Frost: 30 minutes
Total Time: 2 hours 30 minutes

MAKES
About 70 small cookies

Cookies
1 1⁄2 cups (210 g) all purpose flour, plus more for dusting
1⁄2 cup (100 g) granulated sugar
1⁄4 teaspoon baking powder
Lemon zest from 1⁄2 lemon
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 egg yolks
1 stick (1⁄2 cup / 115 g) unsalted butter, at room temperature
Jam or jelly of your choice

Frosting
1⁄2 cup (60 g) powdered sugar
2 1⁄2 teaspoons lemon juice

16 comments
  1. Hello Kristyna,
    Thank you very much for the recipe. I would like to make this soon.
    I have a question…
    How do you store these cookies. Can i keep them in the fridge like some of your other cookies? Will the icibg melt if i keep them in the fridge??
    Thank you

    1. Hi Ava, just store them in the fridge like other cookies.

      1. Thank you!!
        Have a Merry Christmas!!

        1. Thank you Ava! Merry Christmas!

    2. I place a slice of white bread or some raw 1/4
      Apple in a tight sealed container. genevieve

      1. Yes, people do put apple traditionally into the box. 🙂

  2. My Father’s parents are from Czechoslovakia (actually Bohemia they would have said) and I have so few recipes from them. Thank you for doing this.

    1. I hope you enjoy my recipes! 🙂

  3. We always made these at Christmas and called them “butter wreaths” . They were my favorite! I’m glad I found your website.

    1. That is wonderful! Nice name

  4. I made these for my mother-in-law last Christmas. I used my homemade blackberry jelly as the filling. Tasted fabulous. The jam bled into the frosting turning it slightly pink…still tasted great!

    1. I am glad to hear you liked it. Yes mine also bled into the frosting when it set for some time. Makes it fun looking. 😀

  5. Do you have recipe for linecke pecivo

    1. Yes. Just do search on here. I have few.

  6. I made these for the first time today. The lemon flavor for me was a little too mild. So I put 2 or 3 little pieces of zest on the hole and that really made the flavor pop! Great recipe. Dekuju

    1. Sounds good 🙂 They always need time to get better. That is why we bake these cookies 4 weeks before and store them in cold for the flavor to truly develop. 🙂

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