Lemon biscuits

Simple, quick, fragnant, crunchy, with a cup of morning coffee, or of afternoon tea, for a picnic, for work, for every-day routines, for celebrations, when you're grinning, when you're blue, for yourself, your children, your guests - any reason will do: grab a lemon biscuit ;)

Recipe taken from KUCHNIA magazine (issue 10/2011).

Serves: 20 biscuits. Preparation: about 15 min. Baking: 20 min.

Equipment:

- zest grater,

- bowl,

- mixer,

- rolling pin,

- biscuit cutter,

- baking paper,

- baking tray

Ingredients:

- 120g butter,

- 120g (1/2 cup + 1 tbsp) granulated sugar,

- 2 egg yolks,

- zest of 2 lemons,

- 150g (1 cup + 1 tbsp) flour,

- 110g (3/4 cup) potato starch,

- powdered sugar (for sprinkling)

Method:

In a bowl, mix the butter and sugar until light and fluffy (ca. 2 min.).

Preheat your oven to 160C/320F.

Add the egg yolks, lemon zest and both flours to the mixture.

Mix until incorporated.

Roll the dough out to about 1 cm (1/2 inch) thick sheet.

Line the tray with baking paper.

Cut out biscuit in variuos shapes and place them on the tray.

Bake for about 20 min., until golden brown.

Let them cool on the tray for a few minutes, and then put them on a wire rack to cool completely.

Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.

Caution!: they disappear in a blink of an eye ;)