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Citrus Cookie Dough

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    For tinted cookies, add drops of gel-paste food coloring once the flour is incorporated.
    Martha Stewart Living, December 2010
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    Ingredients

    • 3 cups all-purpose flour
    • 3/4 teaspoon baking powder (omit if making thumbprints, ball cookies, or spritz cookies)
    • 1/2 teaspoon salt
    • 2 sticks unsalted butter
    • 1 cup granulated sugar
    • 1 large egg
    • 1 teaspoon finely grated citrus zest
    • 1 tablespoon fresh citrus juice

    Directions

    1. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. Beat butter and granulated sugar with a mixer on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy. Beat in egg and citrus zest and juice. Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture, and beat until combined. Proceed with variations:Thumbprints and Ball Cookies Shaped Icebox Cookies Layered Icebox Cookies Glazed Spritz Cookies Cutout Cookies

    Cook's Note

    Dough can be refrigerated overnight or frozen for up to 1 month.

    Variations

    If you'd like to try a variation, see what ingredients to add:


    Basic Vanilla Dough
    Spice Cookie Dough
    Chocolate Cookie Dough

    Recipe Reviews

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    • cookieace
      4 Dec, 2011

      Citrus Cookie Dough recipe is absent. The page says only Stub! Where's the quality control Martha?

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