Gin, Lemon & Walnut Cookies
These cookies are the old fashioned kind, crisp on the outside with a delicious soft and light middle. The fact they have gin in them is definitely an added bonus!
This recipe is versatile, so feel free to change up the flavours. I have tried adding different ingredients such as chocolate chunks, hazelnut, cinnamon and ginger…the recipe always works!
I love drinking Brecon Gin with a garnish of lemon, so I thought I would try lemon cookies. Crushed walnuts add a wonderful crunch too. They are very moreish!
Gin, Lemon & Walnut Cookie Recipe
- 150g unsalted butter, softened
- 160g golden caster sugar
- 1 medium free range egg, whisked
- 250g plain flour
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 unwaxed lemon (zest and half of its juice)
- 80g walnuts, crushed
- 25ml Gin (I used Brecon Gin)
Gin Icing
- 20ml lemon juice (use the other half )
- 130g icing sugar
- 25ml Gin (I used Brecon Gin)
Method
- Heat the oven to around 180C (for a fan oven) and line a baking tray with baking paper.
- Cream together the butter and sugar in a large bowl. Beat in the whisked egg.
- Sift in all the flour and bicarb of soda, then mix in with a wooden spoon.
- Add the zest of the lemon, juice of half and your gin. Mix until combined.
- Finally add your crushed walnuts.
- Spoon out small scoops of the mixture, spacing them out on the baking tray. I made around 15 medium/large cookies, but feel free to make more smaller sizes ones.
- Bake for around 10 mins until they are light brown on the edges, but still soft in the middle.
- Wait a few minutes for them to firm up on the tray before moving to a cooling rack.
- In another bowl, mix together the icing sugar, lemon and gin to make a smooth, drizzly icing.
- Drizzle over the cookies, adding a little more lemon zest on the top if you like. Enjoy!
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