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My review
Angel Whispers
Julie Stokes
"These are lemony little sandwich cookies that just melt in your mouth. Have a few with a tall glass of iced tea."
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Ingredients
30 m servings 147Original recipe yields 24 servings (2 dozen)
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Directions
{{model.addEditText}} Print- In a medium bowl, cream together butter and confectioners' sugar until light. Stir in the lemon peel, flour and salt. Cover bowl, and chill for about 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
- Flatten teaspoons of dough onto cookie sheets, and bake for 5 to 8 minutes, until light brown. Remove from baking sheets to cool on racks.
- To make the filling, combine the beaten egg, sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice and butter in the top of a double boiler. Stir until thick. Sandwich cookies with 1 teaspoon of filling.
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- Reynolds® parchment can be used for easier cleanup/removal from the pan.
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Most helpful positive review
12/24/2005
After reading reviews that the cookie part was too dry, I added a little lemon juice and a heaping tablespoon of plain yogurt to the dough. I also just frosted the cookies with the filling, rat...
Most helpful critical review
2/26/2005
Well I cant say I was very impresssed with these. As was mentioned above, cookies were very very dry. They tasted like a bad version of a sugar cookie. The filling didnt work either..was way too...
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12/24/2005
After reading reviews that the cookie part was too dry, I added a little lemon juice and a heaping tablespoon of plain yogurt to the dough. I also just frosted the cookies with the filling, rat...
3/3/2002
Lemon flavored treats are one of my favorites and these really hit the spot!! The filling was easy to make, it just took it a while to thicken up..Have patience, it's worth the wait!!! Thanks ...
1/1/2007
These are so good, light and lemony. Like the previous reviewer, I rolled my dough into logs and then sliced and baked. I didn't have a fresh lemon for zest, so I used some pure lemon extract ...
12/29/2005
I made the regular recipe,but instead of the filling, I made the dough into thumbprints, then added seedless raspberry preserves,then baked, they were great My second variation was to omit the l...
12/23/2006
i am sooo glad i found this recipe!These have to be the best lemon cookies i have ever had!The cookie itself is not very sweet with just a hint of lemon and the filling is sweet and lemony so to...
9/1/2006
YUM! In response to previous critics that thought the cookies were too dry, I added about 1/2 a cup of plain yogurt and a fair amount of lemon juice to the dough. I cut down on the salt and subs...
12/5/2006
I loved these! Whispers is a great name as they are so light and just melt in your mouth. Only change I made is I heated the filling in the microwave stirring after every 30 seconds. Turned o...
10/19/2006
This was byfar the best tea cookie i have ever tasted. Would you belive i still have some dough left over about a week later and baked it and it turned out just as tasty. Freezez well and it was...
12/3/2006
These are pretty good! I added about 1/4 c. light sour cream to the cookie mixture (because of the dryness factor) and they turned out very good! I undercooked them a bit - they're a little do...