Sugar cookies with lemon and orange

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Get the products out of the refrigerator in advance, the oil should reach room temperature.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash lemon and orange thoroughly and dry. Remove the zest with a fine grater, without touching the white pulp. Squeeze the juice out of the orange.

3. Step 3:

   

   Sift flour into a bowl with salt.

4. Step 4:

   

   Chop butter with a knife, mix in a bowl with sugar and vanilla, rub thoroughly with a fork until smooth.

5. Step 5:

   

   Add egg, orange juice, lemon and orange zest to the container. Mix so that the mass becomes homogeneous.

6. Step 6:

   

   Add a small portion of flour, mix. Pour the rest of the flour on the table, lay out the half-finished dough.

8. Step 7:

   

   Quickly knead the shortbread cookie dough with your hands. It will take quite a bit of time, very quickly it will turn into a soft, elastic ball. It needs to be wrapped in a film and put in the refrigerator for half an hour.

9. Step 8:

   

   Divide the cooled dough into 4 parts, form a sausage with a diameter of 3 cm from each. Pour sugar into a flat container, roll the dough sausages in it from all sides.

10. Step 9:

    

    Wrap each one in clingfilm and put it in the freezer for 30 minutes. This is necessary so that the dough becomes dense and does not deform when slicing. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.

11. Step 10:

    

    Cut well-cooled shortbread sausages into 7 mm thick slices. Cover the baking sheet with baking paper, put the dough circles on it at a distance from each other, because when baking they will increase in size: the diameter will increase, and the thickness will decrease slightly. Bake cookies for about 20 minutes. It should dry out and acquire a light golden hue.

12. Step 11:

    

    Allow the finished cookies to cool completely, then transfer to an airtight box.