
Crinkle Cookies
Description
The baking comes together easily and quickly. I’m sharing a recipe for delicious Italian cookies that I bake fairly often — it’s fast, tasty, pretty, and not fussy at all. Instead of lemon you can use cocoa powder, and then you’ll have chocolate crackle cookies. Follow the step-by-step recipe and treat yourself and your loved ones to fragrant, tasty homemade goodies. Baking is done; serve at the table.
Instructions
- 1
Step 1

Prepare the ingredients.
- 2
Step 2

Beat granulated sugar with softened butter.
- 3
Step 3

Beat 2 eggs into the sugar-butter mixture and beat again.
- 4
Step 4

Add the zest of one lemon and 40 ml lemon juice.
- 5
Step 5

Add the sifted flour together with baking powder. Knead the dough.
- 6
Step 6

Gather the dough into a ball and chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- 7
Step 7

Pinch off a piece of dough the size of a walnut, shape it into a slightly flattened ball, and roll it generously in powdered sugar.
- 8
Step 8

Place the cookies on a baking sheet, preheat the oven to 180°C, bake for 15 minutes.
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Step 9

Such cookies can be served right away. They are fragrant, pretty, and very delicate in taste. They go wonderfully with coffee and tea.