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I love the flavor of citrus, lemon, lime, and orange. This will not come as breaking news to those of you who know me personally or have been reading my blog for any length of time. This recipe is one I found on Pinterest. How many of you are hooked on Pinterest? I wouldn’t say I’m hooked but it certainly is a handy place to store recipes and well you know; just about anything of interest to each of us. For me it’s been a great tool for planning a wedding with LuLu, my oldest who lives several hours away from me. October is less than 6 months away now and I’m so happy to have our secret boards for communicating about wedding plans.
In the midst of planning a wedding, preparing my bee hives for spring, managing the gourmet kitchen store, and teaching yoga classes I still most enjoy getting my hands dirty in the kitchen. I’m beyond buying packaged, processed cookies at the store. If I want cookies I must want them bad enough to bake them. Such was the case recently. I’ll share this recipe taken directly from kitchen maven, Martha Stewart.
I’m happy to report my bee hives are all busy. Workers coming and going in droves, sometimes there truly is a traffic jam at the entrance to the hives. Queens are busy laying eggs to make more workers. This time of year my hives can reach 60 to 80,000 bees. It’s hard to imagine those numbers but the more bees the more successful the hive. I’ll be adding on extra stories or supers to the hives in the next week or so to be sure they have plenty of room for brood and honey. This begins the busiest time of year for a beekeeper and her bees. I visited this Bluebonnet patch at a neighbor’s yard yesterday and noticed a sweet smell and a buzz coming from the patch of purple and blue flowers. My bees were having a heyday in those wildflowers and surely with the sweet smell it will make some fragrant and delicious honey.
I know the photo of the bee is not the clearest photo I’ve ever posted but between the bee flitting from blossom to blossom and the fierce wind blowing – total focus was impossible.
Enjoy!
Glazed Lemon Cookies
Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour, (spooned and leveled0
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest, plus 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Directions
donnascoggins says
Um, yum!!!
The Orange Bee says
You said it! Mason might like these too!
Rufus' Food and Spirits Guide says
We love citrus too. These look fantastic.
The Orange Bee says
Thanks – they’re easy to throw together too!
sallybr says
I adore anything citric, so these cookies sound perfect to me!
Loved the photo of you bee, what a wonderful thing to be able to nurture them and enjoy the fruits of their work… just wonderful!
The Orange Bee says
Thanks Sally! Being a bee keeper is very rewarding yet baffling at times. When the honey flows in summer the rewards are very evident!
Bunny Eats Design says
Yum. Citrus and baking are great together. I would say I am addicted to Pinterest. I don’t need to do it everyday, but if I open up Pinterest, that’s me for the next few hours. I think it’s partly hoarding, partly learning.
The Orange Bee says
That’s an interesting way to look at Pinterest! Guess it is hoarding of sorts…but fun!