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Lemon Tea Cookies

What you need: 

Cookies:
3 tablespoons water
1 tablespoon flax seeds
1/2 cup nondairy milk
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 3/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup nondairy margarine
3/4 cup sugar, to preference
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind Lemon Glaze:
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup lemon juice

What you do: 

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. For flax mixture: In a cup, stir together water and flax seeds; set aside. For buttermilk: In another cup, stir together nondairy milk and lemon juice; set aside.
2. In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In a separate bowl, beat nondairy margarine for 30 seconds, then add sugar and beat until fluffy.
3. Add flax mixture and lemon rind; beat well. Alternate stirring the dry ingredients and soured milk into the wet ingredients.
4. Drop from a teaspoon onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 12 to 14 minutes. Remove at once onto a wire rack. While baking, mix together the lemon glaze to be brushed on the cookies while cooling.

Preparation Time: 
20 minutes
Cooking Time: 
Servings: 
48
Recipe Category: 

SO HOW'D IT GO?

These certainly were as fantastic as everyone made them out to be.
I went to have another piece, and found half of the batch had been eaten by family and friends. Heck yes!
I did add a bit of soy butter to the glaze, which curdled of course, but all was well.
Anyway, make these if you haven't.

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These cookies are amazing.  Even though other reviewers had mentioned it, I really couldn't believe how light these cookies turned out.  My icing turned out watery  which was probably due to the fact that I didn't follow the recipe (oops!).  I didn't add enough sugar, but I liked the tartness of the flavor.

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These cookies were so AMAZING !!! :)>>> But I do not know how u were able to get 48 cookies out of the batter ??? I made each cookie out of 1 tb of batter and I was only able to get 16 cookies out of the batter?? :'(

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These cookies are so light and fluffy and so darn pretty to look at. 

I used whole wheat flour they are so yummy.  :P

Thanks so much for a great recipe!

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I made at the last minute to bring somewhere, and I didn't have a lot on hand - otherwise I would definitely have made cupcakes from VCTOTW - so I added a lemon frosting (1/4 cup shortening, almost 2 cups powdered sugar, juice of 1 lemon, 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract, 2 TBS zest) on top to make them feel more like cupcakes. 

Mine are not very cute, but they're definitely delicious. 

(Man, I really wish there were a way to make cookies with an oil that's liquid at room temperature and have the texture turn out right.  But then I'd probably just eat more cookies.)

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HELLO!!!!!!! They are fantastic.Although a little sugery. I cant eat just one so I made bars instead , so I would nt feel like such a pig. It didnt help, wind up eating half of the dish between roomie n me. Definitley will make again. Love them<3 :hotforyou:

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OMG! This recipe rocks!!!  ;)b I made them yesterday evening for a basketball game...  some beer to wash it down! All my non-veg friends enhaled the cookies before I could put them on the rack to cool... 1 change I made was 2 tablessppon of batters to make 1 cookie... I like my cookies Bigalicious... Keep up the good work in creating amazing recipes.

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Wow.  Wow.  These cookies are amazing.  I used blood orange instead of lemon and the glaze was a beautiful bright pink.  They were pretty easy too.  These are a definite keeper.

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I made these today and they did NOT turn out how I'd expected. I followed the recipe, but man. when I made them before, they were pretty good, nice and sweet and simple, but the flax did something weird. I still thought they were good though, and so did other people.

but this time, they didn't puff up as much, weren't as sweet, and hence, the flaxseed-y-ness is a little overwhelming. their not awful - still pretty edible, and the hint of lemon is nice, but that FLAXSEED! it shows up in little bits and taints the lemon flavour. I'm wondering, because I assume the flax is used as an egg replacer, could I just use something like ener-g?

the batch only made 33 cookies, a lot less than before. weird.

grr. I'm a little disappointed. I love lemon. I really liked these cookies before. I think the next time I make them, and I think I'll make them again soon, I'll use something other than flax. that might make a difference.

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I just calculated the nutritional info for this recipe (I'm bored right now). if the batch makes 48 cookies, there are approx 36 calories, 1 g fat, scant fiber, 6 g carbs, and 1 g protein. just thought I'd let ya'll know.

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