Ingredients

The following ingredients have 24 Servings
  • 1 1/2 cups butter (softened)
  • 3 cups white sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • zest of one whole lemon
  • 5 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup confectioners' sugar
  • 1 tablespoon milk
  • 2 teaspoons light corn syrup
  • 1/4 teaspoon lemon extract
  • assorted icing coloring

Instruction

  • Kick the tires and light the fires to 350.Cream the butter and sugar together well, then add in your eggs.
  • Once the eggs are completely mixed in, add in your  vanilla. Shred an entire lemon onto the mix, which means taking a lemon, and grating all the yellow part off. This is really what adds the lemon flavor, don't skimp on the lemon.
  • Whisk your dry ingredients together
  • .Add the dry in slowly to the wet mixture, little by little.
  • Stir the dough until combined.
  • You can either cover the dough or put it into a plastic bag and refrigerate it for at least an hour
  • For the Deathly Hallows Cookies, roll out the cookies to your desired thickness (these make great thick cookies!) and cut out a circle with a glass or a cookie cutter.
  • Bake in a 350 degree oven until the edges just barely start to get brown, about 6-8 minutes. Let them cool on racks and mix up your icing.
  • Sugar Cookie Icing
  • Mix the ingredients together.
  • The ingredients listed are the base for the icing, in order to get thinner icing I added a little more milk until I could dip my cookies into the icing, and let them drip off, getting this beautiful glazed coating below.
  • Do NOT put in more corn syrup, it will never harden and set properly.
  • Add milk very little by little until you get the consistency you need.
  • Decorate the cookies with the icing, letting them harden overnight is best! The icing needs to set.