Lemon Cookie with Raspberry Lemon Frosting

These cookies are my favorite thing about Valentine’s Day. The frosting is so amazing. The freezed dried raspberries make this cookie. I find mine at Target so they should be pretty easy to find.

Ingredients

Cookie

3 Cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

1 cup sugar

2 sticks salted butter-Cold & cut into small pieces

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

Zest & Juice of lemon

Frosting

4 oz cream cheese

12 Tbsp butter

3 cups powdered sugar

3 heaping tablespoons freeze dried raspberries

1-2 Tbsp lemons juice

Directions

Preheat oven to 350*. In a mixer add butter and sugar, beat until fluffy. It will take a few minutes and may need to scrape down the sides a few times. Add eggs, vanilla lemon juice and zest and mix until combined. Add baking powder and flour and mix on low until combined. Turn dough onto a floured surface. Roll the dough into about ¼ inch thickness and cut out using a cookie cutter. Place cut outs on cookie sheet about 1 inch apart. Bake for 10-12 minutes just until edges are brown. Remove from oven and let cool on cooling rack completely.

Meanwhile make the frosting. In a Ziploc bag add the freeze dried raspberries and crush them until they are a fine powder.  Mix together cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add lemon juice and powdered sugar and mix until creamy and fluffy. Add 3 heaping tablespoons of the raspberry powder. Add more lemon juice if it’s too thick. Once the cookies are completely cooled, add the frosting. I like to keep the cookies in the refrigerator.