Recipe of the Week: Sunshine Kisses

These cookies are in my top three for favorite cookies. They are just delicious. How do I  know? Because not only does my family love them, but whenever I make them and serve them to friends...I get FLOODED with recipe requests. The best part is they are so easy to make, that you can have these yummy treats often. This recipe comes from a 1996 Pampered Chef cook book. I've been making them for over 14 years now.

Here is what you will need:

Just 6 simple ingrediants!:

cookies:
1 package lemon cake mix
1 egg, slightly beaten
1/3. cup vegetable oil
2 T. water

glaze:
1 lemon
1 cup powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine cake mix, eggs, oil and water using a hand mixer or stationary mixer with the paddle attachment (as shown below)

(within a few minutes, you will have a dry, crumbly dough)

Using a small cookie scoop drop rounded dough onto cookie sheet or stone 2 inches apart. If dough is crumbly, press into the scoop before dropping onto sheet/stone.

After you have dropped cookie dough on the sheet/stone, take the palm of your hand and lightly press the dough until it is slightly flattened.

Bake 13 minutes or until cookies look like this....

Do not over bake. To keep cookies moist and chewy you want them just starting to turn golden on the edges. If you use a stone, like I do...I let the first batch go for 13 minutes and 10 minutes for each subsequent batch to avoid over baking. Cool completely before glazing.

Next step is to make the glaze:

Using a microplane or zester, remove 2 t. zest from lemon. Remove just the yellow, avoiding the bitter white pith. Put the zest into a small bowl.

Next, juice the lemon and measure 4 T. of the juice into bowl with zest. Then add 1 cup powdered sugar. Wisk well.

Once you have a smooth glaze, pour into a small sandwhich baggie letting the glaze settle into the point of one corner of the bag.

Holding the bag over the cookies, snip a tiny hole in the corner of the bag. The glaze will start pouring out the hole ...so quickly start zip zagging over each cookie as seen below to create a drizzled effect.

Let glaze dry completly...then enjoy the yummy lemon goodness of these melt in your mouth Sunshine Kisses!