Good Eating Monday: Lemon Crinkle Cookies!
Greetings! Last week before Christmas! Christmas shopping done? Mine is. My husband just put the boxes going to family in the mail this morning! How's your cookie baking going? Want to try a really easy, lemony cookie? Today's Good Eating recipe is another I tried from Pinterest: Lemon Crinkle Cookies. But as so often happens, the real deal didn't come out looking like the Pinterest picture. Food photographers use a lot of photo trickery like added dye or not cooking the crinkle cookie all the way through so it looks more deeply cracked or dusting it with extra confectioners to give it those clear white patches. In my experience, REAL crinkle cookies, regardless of kind, always come out with rather fine, light cracking and the confectioners sugar I rolled them in before baking is usually largely melted away. I think you'd have to do a second dusting after the cookies are on the cooling rack with confectioners to get those clear patches of whiteness. So, here...