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Arnold Palmer Cookies
These cookies are featured in Eat the Love blogger Irvin Lin's first baking book, "Marbled, Swirled and Layered."
My favorite aspect of this book is that the recipes look incredibly fancy and difficult but Lin breaks the recipes apart and makes them seem doable, even for the amateur home baker. If you're looking for inspiration for your next bake sale or gathering, you need "Marbled, Swirled and Layered."
Incidentally, I interviewed Lin about his book for my day job. And after looking through the cookbook, I knew I had to make Lin's recipe for Arnold Palmer Cookies.
My teenager loves to drink Arnold Palmer's, that combination beverage of lemonade and iced tea, so I figured he might like these cookies. Michael thought the cookies were "pretty good." He said he couldn't taste the iced-tea part as well as the lemonade part but he still enjoyed it.
These cookies have the texture and crispness of a sugar cookie but with the flavors of lemonade and tea. They are good cookies to make when you want a little something different.
Make Arnold Palmer Cookies For:
-your bridge club or tennis team
-a bake sale
-a fashion show
Don't let the fact that you're making two doughs daunt you. It just takes a bit more time.
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Recipe
Arnold Palmer Cookie Recipe
Ingredients
- Lemonade Dough
- 10 tablespoon butter, room temperature
- 1 ¼ cups granulated sugar
- zest of two lemons
- 1 ½ teaspoon lemon extract
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 large egg
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- Ice Tea Dough
- 5 teaspoon finely ground Lipton tea, Lin suggests Yellow Label Lipton
- 1 large egg
- 10 tablespoon butter, room temperature
- ¾ cup dark brown sugar, packed
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup whole wheat flour
- Glazes
- Glaze
- 4 bags Lipton Yellow Label tea
- ½ cup boiling water
- 3 cups powdered sugar sifted, divided (you'll use 2 cups
- for lemon glaze and one cup for tea glaze)
- 3 to 4 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
Instructions
- Make Lemonade Dough
- Put butter, sugar, lemon zest and lemon extract in bowl of stand mixer. Beat on medium speed
- for one minute. Add baking powder, baking soda and salt. Beat for 30 seconds or until dough is
- pale yellow. Add egg and beat until combined with dough. Add flour and beat until a dough forms.
- Don't overmix. Transfer dough to another bowl, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for one to two hours.
- This will help prevent the dough from excessive spreading.
- Make Iced Tea Dough
- Pour ground tea in a medium bowl with a large egg. Beat with a fork until tea and egg are combined.
- Put butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar in bowl of stand mixer. Beat on medium speed about one
- minute. Add baking powder, baking soda and salt and beat for 30 seconds. Add egg/tea mixture to
- bowl and blend for 30 seconds. Add flours to bowl and blend just until dough forms.
- Wrap dough and refrigerate for one to two hours. This will help prevent the dough from excessive spreading.
- Make Glazes
- Add teabags to boiling water. Let steep for three to four minutes. Then add 2 tablespoon of the hot tea
- to one cup of the sifted powdered sugar in a small bowl. Stir to combine.
- In another small bowl, stir together lemon juice and two cups sifted powdered sugar until combined.
- To form cookies:
- Preheat oven to 350. Remove dough from refrigerator. Form lemonade dough balls by pinching off about a tablespoon
- of dough and rolling it into a ball. Repeat until you've used up all the lemonade dough.
- Repeat the process for the ice tea dough.
- Layer a piece of parchment paper on baking sheet. Squish together one lemonade ball and one iced tea
- ball then roll into a bigger ball. Place on baking sheet and flatten with the palm of your hand.
- Bake no more than 8 cookies at a time because they will spread.
- Bake for 14 minutes or until cookie edges turn a golden brown.
- Let cool for five minutes before removing to a cooling rack.Let cool to room temperature before swirling glaze over cookies.
- Makes 42 cookies.
Lemon is one of my most favorite flavors. How about a lemon drop martini?
Tell me what you've been baking lately. Leave a comment!
Jennifer
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