In The Kitchen With Kat-Dairy-Free Lemon Shortbread

in #hive-1205862 years ago

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Today was a glorious day! I mean, aside from the very awesome fact that I woke up, it was a glorious arising because I finally got to have tea with @scribblingramma!

We have been planning to get together for a bit of tea sipping and a chat for a long time, but between illness, obligation, and other sorts of life detritus, we just hadn't gotten around to it yet.


Until today.


And me being me, I just couldn't attend a tea party empty-handed. As I had a solitary lemon languishing on the counter, it occurred to me that the lonely citrus could be put to good tea party use. And as I am now in the thick of week two without dairy, well I was rearing to try whipping up something both dairy-free and tea party worthy.


Shortbread sounded nice.


Mainly because shortbread is easy to craft and I wanted to see if I could make a tasty, dairy-free shortbread. Challenge accepted.

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When I made the cookie dough last night, I had no intentions of blogging about it (hence the lack of step-by-step photo footage), but then when I sliced and baked the dough this morning I thought maybe I should.

Later, after the hubs and @scribblingramma both told me that they liked the shortbread, well, that did it, I thought the cookies of yum had to be shared.

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Plus, they are super easy to make. You just mix together some non dairy butter alternative and sugar, add some lemon zest and almond extract, and then beat in some flour. The resulting dough is shaped into a square log and thrown into the fridge for a good chill, and then sliced and baked for a very short time.

Cool, snag, devour. That's all there is to it!

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Plus, it's a great way for a lonely lemon to meet its end! Well, the lemon might not think so, but I do, as does the rest of the inhabitants of my domicile. They very much enjoyed the lemon shortbread.

And without any more fanfare, here's the recipe:

Dairy-Free Lemon Shortbread

3/4 cup softened Earth Balance buttery sticks (I'm sure regular ol' butter would work too)
1/2 cup plus 2 TBSP powdered sugar
1/2 tsp almond extract
The zest of one lemon (around 1TBSP)
1 3/4 cup plus 2 TBSP all purpose flour

Add buttery sticks and powdered sugar to a mixing bowl and cream together.

Next, add lemon zest and almond extract, mix in well.

Add flour to mixing bowl and mix until dough is well-combined, crumbly, and able to be pressed together easily. If your dough is too dry you can add more buttery stick, 1 TBSP at a time, If it's too wet add more flour 1 TBSP at a time. You want your dough to be like playdough that's just a touch on the dry side.

Shape your dough into a squared log about twelve inches long and two inches wide or so. Wrap in plastic wrap, chill for at least an hour. (I always chill mine overnight)

When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Remove chilled dough from the fridge and slice into squares 1/4 inch thick. Place on a parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake for 9-11 minutes. DO NOT OVERBAKE!

Cool cookies on the cookie sheet for a couple minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to finish cooling. Then devour!


And last but not least, big thank you and your awesome shoutout to @scribblingramma! I had a blast, your banana bread and Assam were awesome, and the company even more so! We did it!


And as most of the time, all of the images in this post were taken on the author's always dairy-free iPhone.

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I am so glad we finally pulled off that tea-and-treats gathering! It was a delight to have you over for a visit, and I loved the shortbread. Thanks for posting the recipe.

It was so fun! We will have to repeat the gathering part at some point over this way. I absolutely adored the banana bread you made btw, hope to see that recipe someday too😁

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A dairy free, also it is still looks like the good texture and still a look good with its shape. Thanks for sharing dear. Hope to try it one days!

They did have a great texture, which I must say made me pleased, as that's one of my favorite parts of shortbread. Thanks so much for the kind words, I hope you get to try them out one day too😊

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Never ate this, thank you for sharing and good luck with the non-dairy journey!

Aww, thanks a bunch for stopping by! I hope you found yourself a lovely bite to snack on even if it wasn't lemon shortbread😊

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Glorious sounding indeed! I used to love baking and eating shortbread as a child. I was really puzzled when I started your post. Dairy free? I thought. But of course there's no dairy! Just butter...............oooooooh!! Butter.............duh. Of course. It's been a long week. Can you tell?

Oh my, I hope your day today was less long that your week has been so far. And that you found a piece of shortbread to enjoy! The plant based butter I used in the shortbread really wasn't too far off the mark taste and texture wise, so I'm all smiles...well, for now anyway.

Hope you have the most glorious weekend!

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Omg - two of my favorite things ever! Lemon & shortbread lol. They look really good. I need to try this recipe. The only dangerous thing is, after it's made, it will be GONE in 5 minutes 😂😂

Thanks for sharing with us! 💚

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That is a very accurate representation of @jacobtothe and I eating the shortbread yesterday ha haha!

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I sure hope you enjoy your eventual five minutes shortbread feast😁

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Cool you 2 got together! My brother is visiting and he's made his "famous" lemon squares to take to my mom today. I don't have a recipe, but when my mom knows he's coming she always asks for them.

Oh, lemon squares😍 I'm so happy for your mom! A visit and lemon lusciousness, that's awesome!

Hope you all are having a beyond fabulous time!

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