Soft, tasty, quick and easy cookies. Great for spur-of-the-moment baking since you don’t need to soften butter.
Original recipe makes 3 dozen
Ingredients
2 eggs
2/3 cup corn oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
3/4 cup white sugar
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
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PREP
25 mins
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COOK
10 mins
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READY IN
35 mins
Directions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
- Stir oil into beaten eggs. Add lemon rind and vanilla. Blend in sugar until mixture thickens.
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt; stir into wet mixture.
- Drop by teaspoons about 2 inches apart on UNGREASED cookie sheet.
- Dip the bottom of a glass in oil then in sugar. Flatten each cookie by gently pressing with bottom of glass. Dip in sugar before stamping each cookie.
- Bake in preheated oven until the edges are golden brown, 8 to 10 minutes. Remove immediately from cookie sheet and cool on a wire rack.
Nutrition
Calories: 164 kcal
Carbohydrates: 19.2 g
Cholesterol: 24 mg
Fat: 8.8 g
Fiber: 0.4 g
Protein: 2.1 g
Sodium: 127 mg