A spontaneous creation on Tuesday morning. We’ve given Izzie a day off today for a couple of reasons, lousy wet weather being one of them, so she was enthusiastically cutting the cookies and even decorated some of them- not that they needed decoration!

Recipe from mojewypieki.com.

150g of soft butter creamed with half a tall glass of sugar and some vanilla sugar too. A zest of one big lemon. Some candied orange peel, always a good idea. 1 egg, 250g of plain flour, 0,5 tsp of baking powder and a good splash of lemon juice ( the recipe called for lemon extract, I don’t use such inventions).

Cookie dough cooled in the fridge for over an hour and then we multitasked- Izzie was cutting the cookies, I was making lunch and baking them. 180 degrees, 9 minutes, until the started catching some colour on the edges.

Excellent addition to a cup of tea.