Luscious Lemon Snowballs

Name: Luscious Lemon Snowballs
Total time: 90
Yield: 24
Ingredients: 1 ½ cups white sugar; 1 large lemon, zested; ¼ cup butter, softened; ¼ cup cream cheese, softened; 1 egg; 1 tablespoon lemon juice; ½ teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder; ¼ teaspoon salt; 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

Recipe by Baking J from allrecipes.com

Dessert 2 Hr. 30 Mins.

Ingredients

24 servings

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1 ½ cups white sugar
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1 large lemon, zested
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¼ cup butter, softened
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¼ cup cream cheese, softened
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1 egg

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1 tablespoon lemon juice
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½ teaspoon vanilla extract
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1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
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¼ teaspoon salt
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1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

Instructions

Combine sugar and lemon zest in a food processor and pulse several times to bruise lemon zest. Transfer 1/2 cup sugar mixture to a bowl.
Beat butter and cream cheese in a mixing bowl until creamy and well-combined; mix in remaining lemon-sugar mixture, egg, lemon juice, and vanilla extract. Use an electric mixer to beat baking powder and salt into moist ingredients; gradually beat flour into mixture to make a dough. Freeze dough for 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.
Shape dough into 1-inch balls and roll in reserved 1/2 cup lemon sugar. Place 2 inches apart on prepared baking sheet. Press cookies down slightly to flatten and sprinkle each cookie with about 1/8 teaspoon of the remaining lemon sugar.
Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are firm on bottoms, 10 to 12 minutes.