And then it was done... I missed it.
It's friday night.  I am making pizza's for our friday evening's pleasure.  We are settling in to watch 'Tangled' and then I'm getting up and it's Monday a.m. at some ridiculously early hour and I am feeling hung over even though (unfortunately) I am not.  And what happened.
Oh yeah... I remember... just a little... these happened.


By about 3:30 Monday afternoon I was so glad that these happened.
I am saying goodbye to citrus season slowly but surely.  What I ride we've had this year.  I'm still dreaming about the lemon curd that I made before Christmas and scheming to make more next year and maybe freeze it.  Lemon cupcakes... yeah... those were amazing too.  But these cookies.  These cookies...
Jeez - don't you hate it when someone writes like that?  YOU HAVE TO MAKE THESE COOKIES NOW OR ELSE YOU MIGHT NOT MAKE IT THROUGH ANOTHER DAY - YOU HAVE NEVER EVEN EATEN A REAL COOKIE UNTIL YOU EAT THESE... that kind of writing.  Why must we constantly make things more and more amazing.  Look good is good and these cookies are/were good.  'nuff said.  Sometimes good is just good.  I don't need these cookies to blow my world, I just need them to do what cookies are supposed to do.  Be good.  My head is in a weird space today and I'm tired from dealing with my own brain.


Allow me to demonstrate:
Today at work one of the conductors that I work with said to the grade 4 choir that as a musician you are always doing one of two things:  1.  Getting better and working towards getting better OR 2.  Getting worse.  No in between.
It hits me like a ton of bricks.  Dang - I've got to ponder that for a while.  I'm sure that the grade 4 class just took it in the conductors words and may someday remember that little gem but I was thinking about it for a long time afterwards... I'm still thinking about it.  I need to think about it for a while and roll it around.  It sounds profound but I'm not sure - I might just be over-thinking it.  I'm immediately standing there in the class with the grade 4 boys thinking about whether I'm a number 1 or a number 2 (that sounds weird).  I'm analysing my past and present and thinking about how to change my future.  I'm wondering if I need to jot down some ideas about how I can place myself squarely in the number 1 slot.  I'm feeling an immediate need to journal.  In short... I'm seriously over thinking this.  And that's only about 3 minutes of my brain's day today.  Eek.


So when it comes to the cookies, I'm not going to wreck them by overstating that I love them and that even though they corn starch in them and I thought it was weird that they turned out really well.  I'm not going to go on and on about how I can take them with me to school because they're nut free and they're also small so I can eat like about 12 and not feel too guilty.  I'm definitely not going to ramble about how they are perfect for me who's a non-sweet-tooth disguised as a sweet tooth and how happy I am that over the last 4 days I've now baked two things that I actually like to eat.  Nope... not gonna do it.
These cookies are good.  There.  Done.  Simple.  Happy Monday.

 


Lemon Melting Moments with a splash of orange adapted from Two Tiny Kitchens and an Australian radio or tv show (?)
makes

1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature and cubed
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup icing sugar
1 1/2 cups all purpose unbleached flour
1/2 cup corn starch (!)
1 tsp vanilla
zest of one lemon and one orange (it's a lot, I know)

Icing

11/2 cup icing sugar
1/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature and cubed
zest and juice of 1 lemon

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.  Line a cookie sheet or two with parchment or silicon liners.  Set aside.

Combine the flour and cornstarch together in a bowl and set aside.
Mix the butter, salt and icing sugar together until light and fluffy.  Add in the vanilla and lemon and orange zest.  Fluff together.  Add in the flour/corn starch mixture.  Mix until well combined.
Form into about 30 little balls (about a 1 1/2 tbsp worth) and place on the prepared cookie sheet.  Press each ball down a little with your finger or using a fork but only until it leaves a print.
Bake for about 20 minutes - it should just be slightly golden on the bottom of the cookie.
Remove from the oven and place each cookie on a cooling rack to cool completely.
Once the cookies are completely cooled then plop a little bit of icing onto the top of each one.  You can also spread a good amount of icing on the bottom of one cookie and then sandwich it together with another cookie.
Icing:
Combine together the icing sugar and butter together - I used a fork to max it all together little by little.  Once it's mixed well then add in the lemon juice only a tbsp at a time until it's the right thickness to use for the cookies.