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Lemon Sandwich Cookies with White Chocolate Creme

Lemons/ limes are frequently used in Indian cooking to give food their characteristic tang as in rasams, salads and other dishes. As far as I know, we use them in larger quantities generally for making pickles.
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Course Snack
Cuisine global vegetarian
Servings 3 dozen

Ingredients
  

  • 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
  • 75 gm butter
  • 1 1/4 cups sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 3/4 tsp baking powder
  • 2 lemons large grated rind / zest from
  • 1 1/2 tbsps lemon juice

White Chocolate Crxe8me:

  • 1 cup chocolate grated white
  • 1 1/2 tbsps lemon juice
  • 3 pods cardamom powder from

Instructions
 

  • White Chocolate Crxe8me:Melt the chocolate over hot (not boiling) water, add the lemon juice and cardamom powder and stir well. Use up the chocolate crxe8me within 20 minutes or it will start setting and lose its soft consistency.
  • I made enough for about 8 sandwich cookies, so please adjust the measurements according to your requirement.
  • Beat the butter and sugar, using an electric beater, till smooth and creamy. Add the egg and mix well. Add the lemon rind and juice and the food colouring and mix well. Sieve the flours, baking powder and salt together. Add this slowly and mix everything into a dough. This dough will be a bit soft. Refrigerate for about an hour.
  • Take the dough out, lightly grease your palms and pinch of enough dough to shape into a round the size of a large marble. Flatten slightly into a cookie and place on a greased cookie sheet leaving some space between them (they will expand slightly on baking).
  • If decorating with sugar, sprinkle on top before baking.
  • Bake at 180C for 12 to 15 minutes. Cool on a rack. The cookies will be a little soft when they come out of the oven but will become crisp on cooling. If over baked the cookies will become very hard.
  • I made most of my lemon cookies plain and kept some as they were and sandwiched the others with the crxe8me. I decorated a few with coloured sugar.

Notes

To make your coloured sugar at home, just add a couple of drops edible food colour, of your choice, to 1/2 a cup of granulated sugar and mix well. You can do this with a variety of colours and store this for use.
Makes 3 1/2 dozen cookies.I am sending this in to The Spice Café who is hosting this month’s JFI: Lime/ Lemon.